Bhandari Humnath 

Biography

"Humnath is an agricultural and environmental economist based in Bangladesh. He is leading a project on “Tracking Changes in Rural Poverty in Household and Village Economies in South Asia (Bangladesh). The main focus of the project is to study the development pathways in rural livelihoods and poverty in South Asia with the help of the farm household panel data collected in the region. Besides, he is involved in socioeconomic research activities of Cereal Systems Initiatives in South Asia (CSISA), Stress-Tolerant Rice for Rice Africa and Asia (STRASA), and Rice Variety Adoption and Monitoring Survey projects. He has fifteen years of post-PhD experience in agricultural research and management. Most of his research is focused on analysis of natural resources management, rural livelihood systems, income diversification, poverty and food security, commercialization and diversification of rice-based cropping systems, economic analysis of agricultural projects, agricultural technology adoption and impact, and agricultural marketing, food value chains, and agribusiness. He has extensive experience of working in several countries in Asia. He uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to study real world problems of farmers. He has strong competency to manage and analyze large-scale cross-section and time-series data using state-of-the-art econometric methods and statistical software package like GAMS, LIMDEP, LINGO, SHAZAM, SPSS, and STATA"

Research Interest

Crop and Environmental Sciences