Rupsha R Banerjee

Rupsha R Banerjee

Senior scientist- Institutions and Innovation

Rupsha R Banerjee, PhD Science Technology and Cognition, with over 10 years’ experience working in Asia and Africa, has skills in evidence-based research to stimulate innovation for development, recognize institutional needs and designs for emerging markets and assess their influence in policy, agricultural transformation and decision making in households and livelihoods. She works on evaluating delivery and business models for scaling technology including gender dimensions for innovation. She has assessed institutional and community needs for drought risk financing solution assessments in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Somalia. She currently leads an agenda for scaling-out drought index-insurance for livestock and other drought risk financing approaches, including use of digital information for service delivery in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa.

My Blog Posts

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Unlocking the potential of India’s livestock sector through digital and financial services

My Publications

Breaking down silos: Towards effective integration of resilience and humanitarian aid in the Horn of Africa

  • Mohamed, Tahira Shariff
  • Crane, Todd A.
  • Roba, Guyo Malicha
  • Derbyshire, Samuel F.
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.

Disseminating KAZNET crowdsourced dryland information: A report of the baseline survey in northern Kenya

  • Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia
  • Lepariyo, Watson
  • Alulu, Vincent
  • Baraza, Meshack
  • Ochenje, Ibrahim
  • Galgallo, Diba
  • Malicha, Wario
  • Chu, B.
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing to Detect Prosopis juliflora Invasion: Environmental Drivers and Community Insights in Rangelands of Kenya

  • Paliwal, Ambica
  • Mhelezi, Magdalena
  • Galgallo, Diba
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.
  • Malicha, Wario
  • Whitbread, Anthony M.

Uncertainty, pastoral knowledge and early warning: A review of drought management in the drylands, with insights from northern Kenya

  • Derbyshire, Samuel F.
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.
  • Mohamed, Tahira Shariff
  • Roba, Guyo Malicha

Crowdsourcing data can help monitor drought impacts on food security

  • Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia
  • Alulu, Vincent
  • Lepariyo, Watson
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.
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The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context

  • Jensen, Nathaniel D.
  • Teufel, Nils
  • Banerjee, Rupsha R.
  • Galgallo, Diba
  • Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia