Shalander Kumar

Bio

Shalander Kumar leads the Markets, Institutions and Policies cluster and is also the Deputy Global Research Program Director of the Enabling Systems Transformation Program at the International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. 

Kumar has more than 29 years of experience working in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and is a Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. Current focus of his work is on systems approaches to design climate resilient, nutrition sensitive and inclusive value chains and food systems; tools and frameworks for co-designing resilient and sustainable farm and food systems and scaling climate smart agriculture; and policies relevant studies around seed systems, agri-business opportunities, climate adaptation, regenerative agriculture and mainstreaming millets.