Sharada Keats Senior Research Officer

Overseas Development Institute

203 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ, UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7922 0420 Fax: +44 (0)20 7922 0399 Nationality: UK/ Canadian

Email: s.keats@odi.org.uk

KEY EXPERIENCE

• Food security, (mal)nutrition and diets

• Agricultural development economics

• Gender issues and rural women

• Commodity price monitoring and analysis

QUALIFICATIONS

Oct 2005-

Dec 2006

MSc. in Agricultural Development Economics (Distinction)

University of Reading, UK

School of Agriculture, Policy and Development

Sep 2000-

May 2004

BSc. in Agricultural Economics (Distinction)

McGill University, Canada

Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

CAREER

Oct 2008 - Present

Senior Research Officer

Agricultural Development & Policy programme, ODI, London UK

Key areas of recent work include: Food and nutrition security analysis, smallholder commercialisation, food price analysis, rural wages in Asia, nutrition and dietary transitions, food crises.

June 2008- Oct 2008

Research Assistant

Trade & Markets Division, FAO, Rome, Italy

Analysis of household surveys, simulation of cereal price shocks to model ex-ante the impact of food price increases on expenditure and consumption of different groups of households.

Feb 2007- Nov 2007

Research Assistant

School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading,

Reading UK

Project for the Azorean regional government looking at strategies for modernisation and development of the region’s dairy industry.

June 2006 Research Assistant

School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading,

Reading UK

Data collation for a spatial analysis of human trafficking in Tanzania.

Aug 2004-

Mar 2005

Agroforestry Development Assistant

Project Reach Out Ghana / Help The Aged Canada, Tema, Ghana

Recruited through Help the Aged Canada to work on an agroforestry initiative. Work involved encouraging subsistence producers to join the initiative, conducting interviews with farmers participating in the initiative for purposes of evaluation, and generating recommendations to improve project capacity, reach, and sustainability.

May 2002- Aug 2002

Research Assistant

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University,

Montreal, Canada

Laboratory tests and field sampling for projects analysing earthworm distribution and greenhouse gas production in cropping systems.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Keats, S., and S. Wiggins, 2016. Population change in the rural developing world: Making the transition. ODI Report.

Wiggins, S., S. Keats, E. Han, S. Shimokawa, J.A. Vargas Hernández, and R. Moreira Claro, 2015. The rising cost of a healthy diet: Changing relative prices of foods in high-income and emerging economies. ODI Report.

Okali, C., and S. Keats, 2015. Changing gender relations in a changing rural environment: What is the evidence? ODI Report

Keats, S and S. Wiggins, 2014. Future diets. Implications for agriculture and food prices, Project Report, ODI Shockwatch: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in an Uncertain World, Overseas Development Institute

Wiggins, S., and S. Keats, 2014. Rural wages in Asia. ODI report

Wiggins, S., and S. Keats, 2013. Leaping and learning: linking smallholders to markets. A4I / ODI Report.

Wiggins, S., and S. Keats, 2013. Smallholder agriculture's contribution to better nutrition. ODI / UK Hunger Alliance Report.

Keats, S. and S. Wiggins, 2012. China: are changes afoot for cereals. ODI Shockwatch, Working Paper.

Keats, S., S. Wiggins, and E. Clay, 2011. International rapid responses to the global food crisis of 2007/08. Three years on: How relevant, effective, and efficient were international responses to food price rises across the world in 2007/08? ODI Report.

Compton, J, S. Wiggins & S. Keats, 2010. Impact of the global food crisis on the poor: what is the evidence? ODI Report.

Wiggins, S., J. Compton, S. Keats, R. Slater, and M. Davies, 2010. Country responses to the food price crisis 2007/08. Case studies from Bangladesh, Nicaragua, and Sierra Leone , ODI Report.

Keats, S., S. Wiggins, J. Compton & M. Vigneri, 2010. Food price transmission over the global food crisis 2007/08. Project Briefing Paper ODI.