Suresh Babu is a Emeritus Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, where was head of capacity strengthening and guided capacity development activities of regional and country programs. An agricultural economist with a Ph.D. from Iowa State University, he has engaged in policy research, capacity development and policy advocacy for more than 30 years in the Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Central Asia and other developing regions. His recent research has been on agricultural extension, nutritional policies and agricultural competitiveness. He is familiar with a range of context shaving coordinated IFPRI’s Southern Africa Food Security Program, Central Asia Program, the South Asia Initiative and its Policy Analysis and Advisory Network. Before joining IFPRI, as are search economist at Cornell University, he worked on nutrition. Dr. Babu has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of leading academic journals including, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Food Security, Agricultural Economics Research Review and African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.