Dr Ankita Goyal’s area of specialisation broadly covers agriculture, food security and sustainable farming, issues related to land ownership, rural development and poverty alleviation. She has earlier worked as a consultant with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, and was closely associated with the committee was set up to look into the ownership, price fixation, value addition and marketing of minor forest produce. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in CSD and Managing Editor, Social Change, Sage Publications. She has worked on varied projects like those related to agricultural credit, cost of cultivation of farmers in Delhi, evaluation of governmental schemes such as National Food Security Mission and National Food Security Act, 2013, village Commons, water conservation, employment scenario in rural India and portability of social security schemes among migrant workers, sponsored by national organisations such as the NABARD, erstwhile Planning Commission, NIRD, Department of Agriculture and farmers’ Welfare, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Govt. of India, Foundation for Ecological Security and international organizations such as Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, KFW, Germany and Rights and Resources Initiatives, Washington DC. She has more than 20 project reports to her credit. She has over 15 years of rich experience in field-based research which allows her to combine her empirical and academic knowledge with the real-life situations on the ground She has a number of national and international publications to her credit in reputed academic journals, popular magazines and edited books. She has also co-authored a book, Socio-economic Impact Assessment of BT Cotton in India. She occasionally delivers lectures in training programmes organized by various institutes of academic excellence. She is a reviewer for a number of Scopus indexed journals, including Social Change, and also serves as Chairperson/ member of various committees in the Council. Dr Goyal holds an MPhil and a PhD from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Books
Socio-economic Impact Assessment of BT Cotton in India
Opinions
Research