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Arnab Gupta

Advisor Seed Systems at Wageningen Center for Development Innovation

Areas of expertise

  • - Agricultural systems
  • - Seed production
  • - Agricultural development
  • - Agricultural research
  • - Seed banks
  • - Seed certification
  • - Seed quality
  • - Seed testing
  • - Seed treatment
  • - Seeds
  • - Seed storage
  • - Software architecture

Major works

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Publications

The roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption. Ronnie Vernooy, Bhuwon Sthapit, Gloria Otieno, Pitambar Shrestha, Arnab Gupta (2017). Development in Practice

Genetic Diversity analysis of cultivated and wild species of plantago by RAPD fingerprinting. Arnab Gupta , S.s.Parihar, Arun Kumar M.B, M. Roy, A.Das, M.Dadlani, R.K Maiti (2008). International Journal on Agriculture Environment and Biotechnology

Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science. Jacob van Etten, Kauê de Sousa, Amílcar Aguilar, Mirna Barrios, Allan Coto, Matteo DellAcqua, Carlo Fadda, Yosef Gebrehawaryat, Jeske van de Gevel, Arnab Gupta , Afewerki Y. Kiros, Brandon Madriz, Prem Mathur, Dejene K. Mengistu, Leida Mercado, Jemal Nurhisen Mohammed, Ambica Paliwal, Mario Enrico Pè, Carlos F. Quirós, Juan Carlos Rosas, Neeraj Sharma, S. S. Singh, Iswhar S. Solanki, and Jonathan Steinke (2019). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

About me

Arnab Gupta is working with Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) as an Advisor specializing in Seed Systems and involved in WCDI's implementation of the seed projects under the Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) banner. He is agricultural systems expert and currently working in the projects being implemented in Myanmar, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria.

The last three years Arnab has been involved in the WCDI Seed and Genetic Resources course, as an expert in genetic resource conservation. Arnab is also well versed with the deployment of digital systems to assist farming and has been instrumental in development of mobile apps for seed intelligence and logistics in Myanmar and Uganda.