has been working on rural development for more than 10 years, exploring solutions to rural poverty from both the agricultural and the non-agricultural perspectives. Before joining ICRAF, he worked for the International Crops and Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) from 2010 to 2018 where he planned, coordinated and implemented economic projects and programme components at the regional and global levels. Topics ranged from adoption, dissemination and impact evaluation to value chain analysis and improved targeting of agricultural interventions in rural areas. Kai received his MSc while working with the
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