Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Co-Director, Development Policy Analysis Laboratory, Texas A&M University

Dr. Kashi Kafle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. He is an applied micro-economist interested in the intersection of agriculture, poverty, and international development. Dr. Kafle’s primary research areas include the economics of small-scale agriculture, with particular focus on poverty and inequality, food security, gender, climate change, agricultural water management, and migration in developing countries. His expertise also entails analysis of complex longitudinal data from developing countries. He has several years of experience in designing impact evaluation and other micro-economic household and agricultural surveys in South Asia and Africa. Dr. Kafle’s research has been published in highly regarded journals, including Science, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Food Policy, and Science of the Total Environment. He earned his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. Before joining Texas A&M University, Dr. Kafle worked as an economist at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and served as a consultant economist at the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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