Dr. P. Indira Devi

• 32 years of experiences in teaching, research and extension in KAU
• Currently serving as Director of Research, KAU
• Served as Special Officer, Academy of Climate Change Education and Research (ACCER), KAU
• Expert in the field of Natural Resource and Environment Economics
• Guided 4 Ph.D and 10 PG students
• Served as external examiner in various State Agricultural Universities
• No. of projects handled as Project Investigator –18
• Course Director, ICAR funded Winter School on for 21 days on Natural Resource Management Strategies in a Climate Change Scenario from 12th November to 2nd  December 2013
• Co-ordinator of SANDEE –ICIMOD sponsored 5 days training programme on January 18th -22nd 2014
• Co-ordinator of ISAE workshop on Environmental Policy  and Valuation of Ecosystem

Services on September 23rd -25th.

• Regional Conference on Models for Agricultural Development: The Experience from Farmer Producer Companies organised by Indian Society of Agricultural Economics and KAU on 25th and 26th March, 2019
• Organised various training programmes for elected representatives of panchayaths and officials of line departments  (Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Irrigation & Animal Husbandry)
• Women and Development Pilot Project Award of Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (1999-
• 2000) for the research work at University of British Colombia, Canada.
• Member, Research and Advisory Council ,Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Complex for Goa (2014-17)

• Represented Government of Kerala in a High Level Meeting on Genetically Modified
• Organisms with State Agriculture Departments of India (2016)
•  Member, Advisory Council, Farm Information Bureau (FIB) Government of Kerala
• (2016)
• Member, Coordination Committee (Coconut Research and Development, Commission

for Agricultural Costs and Prices) Government of Kerala (2017)

• Advisory Committee Member, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (2015)
  • Member, Working Group (Environment ) 13th FYP, Planning Board, Government of

Kerala (2016)

• Member, Working Group (Agriculture) 13th FYP, Planning Board, Government of

Kerala (2016)

• Serving as Executive member in various professional bodies in India and abroad
• Recipient of Professor Ramesh Chandra Aggarwal Prize in 2019
• Referee for the journals Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics Research Review, and Journal of Tropical Agriculture
• Published 48 research articles in peer reviewed journals; authored three Books; Book chapters-14; Policy breif-5 & National conferences/seminar presentations-28
• Life Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), Mumbai
• Life Member, Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA), New Delhi
• Life Member, Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), New Delhi
• Member, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal