Dr. Jagannath Adhikari

Senior Research Specialist

Jagannath Adhikari is a human geographer (PhD, The Australian National University, 1995). He has over two decades of research, teaching and consultancy experiences in themes like sustainable development; climate change and food security; globalization, migration, remittances and development; sustainable agriculture; participatory natural resources management; environmental justice, land management and land reform; agrarian change and livelihoods; and, religion/spirituality, traditional knowledge and sustainability. He taught as Visiting Professor/Scholar in Kyoto University (Japan), Heidelberg University (Germany), ANU (Canberra), University of Sussex (UK) and Worcester Poly-Technique Institute – WPI (USA). He taught two courses related to climate change adaptation and disaster management in University of New South Wales – UNSW (Sydney) in 2017-2019. He has authored/co-authored over a dozen books and many journal articles and book chapters on themes of his interests. Some of his books includes – Agrarian change in Nepal (Kathmandu: TM Publication), Food crisis in Nepal: How farmers cope (Adroit publication, New Delhi), Food crisis in Karnali (Martin Chautari, Kathmandu), Pokhara: Biography of a town (Mandala Book Point, Kathmand). Recently, he was in the editorial team of a book Agriculture, Natural Resources and Food Security: Lessons from Nepal (UK, Springer). Presently, he is one of the editors of a book on ‘environmental justice in Nepal’ (Routledge, UK). He is also affiliated with Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

Apart from academic research and teaching, Jagannath Adhikari also worked as development consultant. Over the past three decades, he provided consultancy services to organizations like DfID (now UKAid), WFP, ADB, World Bank, IFAD, FAO and to many I/NGOs.