Curriculum Vitae
VIJESH KRISHNA
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Georg-August University of Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
Ph. +49 (0)-551-39-3917; E_mail: vijeshkrishna@gmail.com; vijesh.krishna@agr.uni-goettingen.de
Date & place of birth
Nationality
Marital status
25 October 1976; Vamanapuram (Kerala, India)
Indian
Married to Sethulekshmy KR.; one son
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
03/2012 onwards
Senior Research Fellow, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
09/2009 - 02/2012
Production & Resource Economist (South Asia), International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), New Delhi, India
01/2008 - 08/2009
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, US
11/2001 - 09/2002
Research Associate, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, India.
EDUCATION
2004-2007
2003-2004
1999-2001
1994-1999
PhD in Agricultural Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
MPhil in Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge, UK
MSc in Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore),
India
BSc in Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, India
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Economics of land-use change; Institutional economics; Technology diffusion in agriculture;
Non-market valuation
FELLOWSHIPS OBTAINED
o SV Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley (2008-09)
o Department for International Development (DFID) Shared Scholarship from Association of
Commonwealth Universities and University of Cambridge (2003-04)
o Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) (1999-2001)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAAE); European Association of
Agricultural Economists (EAAE); Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow; Indian Society of
Agricultural Economists (ISAE; Life-time membership); Agricultural Economists’ Research
Association (AERA; Life-time membership).
TEACHING & TRAINING EXPERIENCE
o
Guest lecturer at University of Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore, India) in course, "Advanced
Natural Resource Economics" (January-June 2011). A field visit (2-day) was conducted as part
of this course to provide students practical experience on data elicitation for contingent
valuation.
o Handled sections in different training programmes viz.
o 'Non-randomized approaches for impact evaluation', in the training programme
conducted on impact evaluation for socio-economists of CIMMYT at Texcoco, Mexico
in January, 2012,
o ‘Risk in agriculture', at Centre for Advanced Faculty Training in Agricultural Economics
in November 2011 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
o 'Economics of conservation agriculture' at Regional Training Course on Conservation
Agriculture, organized by CIMMYT in December 2010 at Ludhiana, India and
o Trainer on 'Stated preference contingent valuation: theory and practice', as a 3-day workshop
organized by Bioversity International in February 2010 at Chennai, India.
o Supervised the research work of 12 students (3 MSc, 8 MA and 1 MBA) from different
universities of India under the CIMMYT internship program.
REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES
Journal/Working Paper Series/Conference
Ecological Economics
Agricultural Economics
Journal of Agricultural Economics
African Journal of Agricultural Research
CIMMYT Working Paper Series
AgBioForum
Land Economics
Food Policy
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology (Iran)
IAAE Conferences - Brisbane 2006, Beijing 2009, Brazil 2012
# of papers
reviewed
4
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
o At present involved in Planned Collaborative Research Center 990 [“Ecological and
socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra,
Indonesia)”] in Georg-August-University of Göttingen.
o During 2009-2012 period, I had led the socio-economic components of 6 projects in
CIMMYT (South Asia), focusing mainly on (i) diffusion and impacts of Conservation
Agriculture and (ii) seed and product value chains. These projects were funded by USAID,
BMGF, BMZ, ICAR and IFAD, with a total budget of US$ 1591 thousand for the duration of
these projects.
o Collaborated with Bioversity International (Rome) to carry out project on 'payment for agrobiodiversity conservation services' in India during 2009-11 (PI: Dr. Adam Drucker).
o Collaborated with project on 'economics of biotechnology in developing countries', funded by
German Research Foundation (DFG) at University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart) and participated
in panel dataset development on Bt cotton diffusion in South India (PI: Prof. Dr. Matin
Qaim)
LANGUAGES KNOWN
Malayalam
English
Hindi
(Mother tongue)
(Excellent)
(Excellent)
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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
A. Peer-reviewed journal articles
o Krishna, V., and Qaim, M. (2012) “Bt cotton and sustainability of pesticide reductions in India”.
Agricultural Systems 107: 47–55.
o Krishna, V.V., Pascual, P. and Zilberman, D. (2010) “Assessing the potential of labelling schemes
for in situ landrace conservation: an example from India”. Environment and Development Economics
15: 127-151.
o Krishna, V.V., and Qaim, M. (2008) “Consumer attitudes towards GM foods and pesticide
residues in India”. Review of Agricultural Economics 30(2):233-251.
o Krishna, V.V., and Qaim, M. (2008) “Potential impacts of Bt eggplant on economic surplus and
farmers’ health in India”. Agricultural Economics 38(2):167-180.
o Krishna, V.V., and Qaim, M. (2007) “Estimating the adoption of Bt eggplant in India: Who
benefits from public-private partnership?” Food Policy 32(5/6): 523-543.
o Tamizheniyan, S., Umesh, K.B., and Krishna, V.V. (2004) “An economic assessment of
integrated pest management”. Journal of Rural Development 23(2): 231-244.
o Tamizheniyan, S., Umesh, K.B., and Krishna, V.V. (2003) “Economics of integrated pest
management in rice production in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu.” Agricultural Economic Research
Review 16 (1): 12-23.
B. Book chapters
o Krishna, V.V. and Pascual, P. (2009) “Can greening markets help conserve landraces in situ?” In
Pascual, P., Kontoleon, A., and Smale, M. (eds.) Agricultural biodiversity and economic development,
Routledge, New York.
o Dedeurwaerdere, T., Krishna, V.V., and Pascual, U. (2007) “An evolutionary institutional
approach to the economics of bioprospection”. In Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Swanson, T.
(eds.) Biodiversity economics: Principles, methods and applications, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp.
417-445.
o Krishna, V.V. and Qaim, M. (2007) “Potential socio-economic impacts of Bt eggplant in India”.
In Ramasamy, C., Selvaraj, K.N., Norton, G.W. and Vijayaraghavan, K., (eds.) Economic and
environmental benefits and costs of transgenic crops: Ex-ante assessment. Tamil Nadu Agricultural
University, Coimbatore, pp. 57-71.
C. Working papers
o Raghu, P.T., Krishna, V., Erenstein, O., Zaidi, P.H. and Kumar, A., "Cultivar selection for farm
profitability and risk management in maize in the drought-prone districts of India and
Bangladesh". Paper submitted to CIMMYT-SEP Working Paper Series on April 2012.
o Krishna, V., Aravindakshan, S., Chowdhury, A., and Rudra, B., “Access to technology and its
productivity impacts: The case of zero-tillage in the subsistence wheat farming system of West
Bengal, India”. Submitted to CIMMYT-SEP Working Paper Series on April 2011 (Working on
the reviewers' comments).
o Deurwaerdere, T., Krishna, V.V., and Pascual, U. (2005) “Bioprospecting and intellectual
property rights: A dynamic approach to economic efficiency”. Environmental Economy and
Policy Research discussion paper No. 13. 2005. Department of Land Economy. University of
Cambridge, UK.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS
o Krishna, V. and Sadashivappa, P. (forthcoming)"Agrarian institutions and diffusion of
biofortified maize in India", Symposia paper accepted for Triennial Conference of International
Association of Agricultural Economics at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 18- 24 August 2012.
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o Shiferaw, B., Hellin, J., Krishna, V., and Erenstein, O (2011) "Changing demands and value
chains for maize in Asia". Keynote paper at 11th Asian Maize Conference in Nanning, China, 611 Nov, 2011.
o Sadashivappa, P., and Krishna, V. (2011) "Maize-poultry value chains in India". Paper at 11th
Asian Maize Conference in Nanning, China, 6-11 Nov, 2011.
o Krishna, V., and Qaim, M. (2011) "Pesticide reduction sustainability of Bt technology in India".
Paper at European Association of Agricultural Economists 2011 Congress: 'Change and
Uncertainty: Challenges for Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource' at ETH Zurich,
Switzerland, Aug 30-Sept.02.
o Krishna, V., Aravindakshan, S. and Chowdhury, A. (2011) “Technology adoption, re-invention
and impacts: Case of zero-tillage wheat in the subsistence farming system of West Bengal
(India)”. Paper at 'Mind the Gap: From evidence to policy impact' conference at Cuernavaca,
Mexico, June 15-17.
OTHER CONFERENCES ATTENDED FOR PAPER PRESENTATION
o Triennial Conference, International Association of Agricultural Economics, August 16-22, 2009
at Beijing.
o Joint Annual Conference, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and American
Council on Consumer Interests, July 26-July 28, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
o Joint Annual Conference, American Agricultural Economics Association, the Western
Agricultural Economics Association, and the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, July 29August 1, 2007 at Portland, US.
o International Conference on 21st Century Challenges to Sustainable Agri-Food Systems, March
15-17, 2007 at Bangalore, India.
o Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, December 15-18,
2006, New Delhi, India.
o Deutscher Tropentag, October 11-13, 2006, Bonn, Germany.
o Triennial Conference, International Association of Agricultural Economics, Queensland,
Australia, 2006.
o Annual BIOECON Conference on ‘Economics and the analysis of biology and biodiversity’.
September 2-3, 2004, University of Cambridge, UK.
o Biennial Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Canada.
o International Conference on Society, Politics, The Economy and The Environment- Implications
for socioeconomic progress in 21st century, July 24-26, 2001, Bangalore, India
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