Roshan Adhikari, PhD

Applied economist working on agriculture, water, climate change, and rural livelihoods.

I am an agricultural and natural resources economist based in the UK and Nepal. I currently consult for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and serve as Principal Researcher for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning at the International Development Institute.

My research examines how investments in irrigation, mechanisation, and risk management affect farm productivity and household welfare, and how rural households adapt to climate change. This work has appeared in Nature Sustainability, World Development, Environmental Research Letters, Water Policy, Water Resources and Economics, and other journals. I hold a PhD in Applied Economics from Oregon State University and a BA in Economics-Mathematics from Whitman College, and I have taught economics at Nottingham Trent University and Oregon State University.

As an evaluator and consultant, I have led impact assessments, programme evaluations, and large-scale household surveys for the World Bank, IFPRI, IFAD, FAO, UN Women, WFP, UNDP, FCDO, USAID, SDC, the British Council, International IDEA, and Welthungerhilfe, with fieldwork across South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Pacific. This includes OECD DAC and UNEG-aligned evaluations, value-for-money assessment, and surveys covering more than 14,000 households. Recent assignments include an independent impact assessment of IFPRI's crisis-response research on the COVID-19 and Ukraine-related food crises.

On this site: selected evaluation assignments, publications, and teaching.

Contact

Email roshanadhikari778@gmail.com. I am also on Google Scholar and LinkedIn, and available for evaluation, research, and advisory assignments internationally.