Experience

MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

• India
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Fellow

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Project Name: Carbon Footprint of National Field Crop Production ( The project aims to determine the carbon footprint LCA, across various components, within the farm gate for cropping systems across different agro-climatic zones.).Funder: National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (ICAR)Role: Senior Research Fellow • Help design the research goals and project scope, and establish the system boundaries and inventory flows. • Assimilate secondary national data on crop area, soil, production, cultivation practices, and soil emission factors across different agro-climatic regions of India. • Calculate and assimilate emissions across all production, processing, and marketing stages. Show less

• Research Associate

  • Jul 2020 - Mar 2022

  Project Name: Equity and CBDR-RC in Achieving the Paris Agreement Goals- Implications for India. Funder: GEF- Government of India-UNDP NATCOM projectRole: Research Associate• Worked on patterns of agricultural productivity and yield gaps in India.• Analysed the relationship between soil moisture and productivity patterns.• Contributed to India’s 3rd Biennial Update Report (BUR) along with the Climate Change team of MRRF Chennai.• In the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow, followed discussions in the UNFCCC and wrote policy briefs as part of the project “Equity and CBDR and RC in the context of 2-degree warming - Implications for India”.Project Name: Fairtrade Cotton resilience. (Analysis of GHG emissions from Fairtrade organic cotton farms and existing climate challenges in the cultivation of organic cotton )Funder: Fairtrade UKRole: Research Associate• Designed and conducted data collection from field sites in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Gujrat, and Tamil Nadu. Data included biophysical data, energy use data, and socio-economic data collected using personal interviews and FGDs.• Analysed the data using the “Cool Farm Tool” to calculate and compare GHG emissions from organic cotton and non-organic cotton farms.• Authored the final report with other co-authors based on the analysis and provided adaptation recommendations for the Fairtrade cotton farmers of the study region. Project Name: Google AI for Social Good. (Using AI and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify drivers of aridification in the lower Cauvery Delta and modeling its impact on paddy cultivation).Funder: GoogleRole: Research Associate• Carried out a preliminary analysis of the area using secondary data to formalize the research question and the project proposal. • Designed an on-farm primary data collection for calibration of the designed model.Contributed to the development of Climate Equity Monitor (CEM)http://climateequitymonitor.in/about-cem.html Show less