Manoj Kaushal, Ph.D. is a Systems Scientist with nearly a decade of teaching and research experience at various national and international institutes. Currently he is working with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and has associated with CGIAR consortium from more than six years. His research interests include cropping systems, tropical and semi-arid small holder agriculture, microbiome, and agroecologies tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Moreover, he has authored more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, and book chapters.