Indoin Business Group presents "Stars of Pantnagar"
Our Host Dr. Shreesh Gautam takes you through the journey of Dr. P K Joshi,Id No 4077, Batch 1969 Agriculture, He is presently the President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association; and the Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr P K Joshi superannuated as the Senior Advisor to the Director-General and the Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC.
He did his graduation, masters and doctorate degrees from the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar.
Dr Joshi has received the following awards:
1. Dr M S Randhawa Memorial Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2009–11),
2. Dr RC Agarwal Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (2012-13) for his outstanding contribution in social science and agricultural economics research and management; and
3. The Life Time Achievement Award of the Pantnagar Alumni Almamater Advancement Association.
He has more than 40 years of research experience in the areas of impact assessment, technology policy, natural resource management, markets, and institutional economics. He was extensively working in South and Southeast Asian countries.
Prior to this he was holding the positions of the Director, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, and the Director of the National Centre of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research.
Dr Joshi has also served as the chairman of the SAARC Agricultural Centre’s governing board in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006–08); chairman of the UN-CAPSA governing board in Bogor (2007); member of the BRICS-Agriculture group; and member of the intergovernmental panel on the World Bank’s International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (2007–08). He served as a member of the International Steering Committee for the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Challenge Program, led by the ESSP Science Community and the CGIAR (2009–11). He was also a member of the core group of the Indian government’s “Right to Food” National Human Rights Commission.
He is the Fellow of the (1) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, (2) Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, (3) Indian Society of Agricultural Engineering, and (4) International Society of Noni Research.
Discover his journey, passion, dreams, university days and his Pantnagar..!!
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