Aldas Janaiah

Family and education

Career and assignments

• He joined as a scientist at Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1991 until 2005.
• He was as a project scientist and post doctoral fellow at the International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, The Philippines between 1999 and 2002.
• Visiting Fellow at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research between 2002 and 2004.
• Visiting Professor at the Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute to deliver Lectures on "The Irrigation & Technology Impacts on Rural Livelihood in Vietnam" in 2004.
• International Team Leader for the World Bank-Asian Development Bank Joint Project "Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Public Expenditures in Irrigation in Vietnam" between 2002 and 2004
• Member of Experts Group on Green Revolution Initiative in Africa, The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between 2003 and 2005.
• Convenor of South Asia Regional Conference of International Association of Agricultural Economists from 2005.

  Awards

• Best Scientist Award in 2002 from International Rice Research Institute in 2002 for outstanding contributions in the field of Rice Policy Analysis across Asia.

  Research projects

• The comparative economics and adoption behavior of hybrid rice technology in India.
• Analysis of the seed system and seed policy for rice in Bangladesh.
• The productivity impacts of green revolution in cereal crops in India.
• Impacts of modern farm technologies on poverty and income distribution in rural Asia
• Economic evaluation of the farm-level impacts of hybrid rice technology in tropical Asia

  Publications

• Aldas Janaiah, "Hybrid Rice for Indian Farmers : Myths and Reality", Economic and Political Weekly, 2002,42:4328
• Aldas Janaiah, "Hybrid Rice For Tomorrow Food Security:", Economic and Political Weekly, 2002,1
• Aldas Janaiah, "Vietnam Experience in Hybrid Rice", Economic and Political Weekly, 2003,25:2529
• Aldas Janaiah, "Hybrid Rice in Bangladesh:Farm-Level Performance", Economic and Political Weekly, 2003,25:2552
• Aldas Janaiah, "Hybrid Rice in Andhra Pradesh:Findings of a survey", Economic and Political Weekly, 2003,25:2512
• Aldas Janaiah, "Hybrid Rice Cultivation in the Philippines: Early Level Experiences", Economic and Political Weekly, 2003,25:2508
• Aldas Janaiah, "Can Hybrid Rice Technology help Productivity Groeth in Asian Tropics?Farmers' Experience", Economic and Political Weekly, 2003,25:2501
• Aldas Janaiah, "The Seed Delivery System in Andhra Pradesh", Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing, 2003,2
• Aldas Janaiah, "Partnership in the Public Sector Agricultural R&D:Evidence from India", Economic and Political Weekly, 2004,50:5334
• Aldas Janaiah, "Has the Green Revolution Bypassed Coarse Cereals? The Indian Experience", Economic and Political Weekly, 2004,1:31