Srinivasulu Rajendran - India 🇮🇳

Srinivasulu is an Indian citizen. He has completed MSc in Economics from Madras School of Economics, a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and Post-doctoral fellow at World Vegetable Center.

Currently, he works at International Potato Center (CIP) as an Agricultural Economist (Scientist). He is involved in a project called Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) which is part of major initiative called “Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI)”, launched in 2009. The SPHI is a 10 year, multi-partner and multi-donor initiative, led by the International Potato Center (CIP). It is an outcome of a comprehensive consultative process to unleash the untapped potential of sweetpotato. The aim of SPHI is to repositioning sweetpotato in African food economies, particularly in expanding urban markets and improve the lives of 10 million African families by 2020 in 17 Sub-Sharan African countries.

Prior to joining CIP, Srinivasulu worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist (Agricultural Economics) in the consumption Theme at AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center and based at AVRDC’s regional office Eastern and Southern Africa, Arusha, Tanzania. Here, he worked on projects that seek policies for improving Eastern and Southern African countries’ farming system and livelihood of farmers through efficient agricultural technology and value chain system with the help of Monitoring and Evaluation tools. He also worked on home garden upscaling projects to understand linkages between dietary diversity and farm diversity using Randomized Control Trail (RCT) Method and Quasi-experimental method. Before this, he worked at IFPRI-India office as a Research Analyst and as a Consultant for CGIAR centers.

"I am specialized in Budget Enterprises Models, Impact Assessments and Value Chain Analysis and like to extend my research domain in digital agriculture."

Agribusiness Academy says: "The Champions Program is a great fit for someone with Srinivasulu's experience and ambition. He has continuously shown his impact in the sector, the mark of a Champion."