Manjunatha, A.V holds a doctorate in Agricultural Economics from Justus Liebig University, Germany and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. His main research interests are sustainable agriculture, agricultural markets, impact evaluation of developmental programmes and technology adoption, energy, climate change and crop insurance. His research have been published in high ranking national and international journals, conferences and books, and a recent published paper on informal groundwater markets in Irrigation Science (Springer).