Has more than 15 years of rich contributing experience in the fields of: 1. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (at IGES and Kyoto University) 2. Disaster risk reduction, including drought risk reduction and capacity building (at UNDP-DRM, India) 3. Conservation farming and participatory research and development (at RWC-CIMMYT, India) 4. Crop simulation modeling and farmer decision support tools (at IARI, India) 5. Screening of pegionpea and sorghum cultivars for nutrient deficiency tolerance, socio-economic and crop management survey of farmer in dry tracks of India (at ICRISAT, India) 6. Agriculture, food and energy (at IGES and RWC-CIMMYT, India) 7. Contributing author