Navin Ramankutty (1970) is an agricultural geographer. As of 2015 he is a professor of Global Food Security and Sustainability at the

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Ramankutty studies changes in land use and agricultural practices, and the effect on global food production.

Early life and education

Ramankutty earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the

PSG College of Technology PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is affiliated to PSG and Sons Charities Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PS ...

in India in 1991. He received a Master of Science in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois in 1994, with the thesis ''An Empirical Estimate of

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''. He then earned a Ph.D. in land resources at the

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in 2000.

Career

After graduation Ramankutty worked as an assistant research scientist on a project at the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the development of the first worldwide land use maps. Information from these studies was used in the National Geographic Atlas of the World, 8th edition. In 2006 he became an assistant professor in the

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geography department, and in 2014 moved to the University of British Columbia as a professor of global food security and sustainability.

Publications

Ramankutty has published more than 100 articles on various topics about land use and food security.Google Scholar Report
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References

External links

Profile at MELDI
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