Vidya Vemireddy

Bio

Prof. Vidya Vemireddy is faculty at the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). As a trained applied economist, her teaching, research and consulting assignments cut across the domains of agriculture, food systems, climate, agricultural finance, and gender. She currently chairs the Gender Centre at IIMA and has led several research grants on gender and agriculture.  She has led several projects examining farmer behavior, technology adoption in Indian Agriculture across ten states in India [Ministry of Agriculture Farmer Welfare, Government of India], pathways through women's empowerment can enhance household and intra- household nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and India; pathways to make agriculture climate resilient at the household level [CGIAR institutions]. With the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, she has examined food consumption patterns at the intra-district level in India and continues to provide policy recommendations. Further, she contributed to research and interventions on; adapting metrics of women’s empowerment index to the Indian context; examining financial inclusion of women in agriculture and integrating women self-help groups in food fortification initiatives.

In the domain of agriculture and food systems, she has written case studies, ranging from blockchain applications in agriculture; receivable financing; adoption of digital technologies; viability of Farmer Producer Organizations, the role of price discovery mechanisms and risk and resilience in agri-food systems. She has published her research in reputable international journals, policy papers and editorial columns.

Before joining IIMA in 2019, Prof. Vemireddy received her doctoral degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, USA. During her Ph.D., She has been a TCI scholar at Cornell University. Prior to her Ph.D., she earned her master’s degree in Economics from Boston University and a Bachelor’s (Hons.) degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University.