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Vijesh Krishna

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Universitat Hohenheim, University of Cambridge, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen

ORCID iD 0000-0003-2191-4736
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About

Vijesh Krishna is a lead economist focusing on adoption and impacts of technological change in agriculture. He joined CIMMYT in 2017 and mainly works on the inclusive adoption of technologies and their impacts on the farming systems of the Global South. Before joining CIMMYT, he worked as a senior research fellow at the University of Goettingen in Germany, examining the socioeconomic determinants and impacts of land-use transformation systems in Indonesia. He also worked as a production and resource economist for CIMMYT in South Asia and as Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His major research interests include the economics of gender and caste, social inclusion in the technology diffusion process in developing countries, and environmental and social impacts of the agricultural production process.

Employment

  • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Principal Scientist / Lead Economist
    2020 - Present
  • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Lead Economist
    2017 - 2020
  • Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Senior Research Fellow
    2012 - 2017
  • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Associate Scientist
    2009 - 2012
  • University of California Berkeley Ciriacy Wantrup PostDoctoral Fellow
    2008 - 2009

Education

  • Universitat Hohenheim PhD
    2004 - 2007
  • University of Cambridge MPhil
    2003 - 2004
  • University of Agricultural Sciences MSc
    1999 - 2001
  • Kerala Agricultural University BSc
    1994 - 1999

Projects & Funding

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Publications (62)