Srinivasulu Rajendran (India) is a Post-Doctoral Scientist (Agricultural Economics) in the consumption Theme at AVRDC and his work station is based at AVRDC's regional office Eastern and Southern Africa, Arusha, Tanzania. Prior to joining AVRDC, he has worked at IFPRI-India office. He also worked as consultant at IRRI, IWMI, UNFAO, UNCTAD, JBIC and UNDP. He also served in TERI and ICRIER which are national organization based at India. He has completed M.Sc in Economics from Madras School of Economics and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. In his previous work experience, he carried out research on the India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. He is interested in Value Chain Analysis, Agricultural Technology Adoption, Household Survey Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation and Applied Econometrics. He is specialized several econometric software packages such as STATA, SPSS and E-Views. At AVRDC, he will work on the projects that seek policies for improving African farming system and livelihood of farmers through efficient agricultural technology and value chain system.

Domain(s) of expertise:
Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Applied Econometrics, Household Analysis and Price Analysis -