Kai Mausch has been working on rural development for more than 10 years, exploring solutions to rural poverty from both the agricultural as well as the non-agricultural perspective. Before joining ICRAF he worked for ICRISAT from 2010-2018 where he planned, coordinated and implemented economic projects and program components at both the regional and global level. Topics ranged from adoption, dissemination and impact evaluation to value chain analysis and improved targeting of agricultural interventions in rural areas. While there, he piloted and popularized tablet-based surveys and organized several episodes of the popular Kenyan TV show ‘Shamba Shape up’ to communicate research results and increase turnaround speed and broader adoption of farming options. Kai’s global work includes stints in Vietnam, where he worked on his PhD, Malawi and Kenya - both with ICRISAT. He received his MSc while working with ICIPE (Nairobi) and in 2009 received his PhD in Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. My expertise: Farm / non-farm linkages, Adoption, Dissemination, Impact evaluation, Value chain analysis, Targeting of project interventions