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Technical University of Munich

Jannet John, PhD

Academic Staff

jannet.john@tum.de
Phone +49 8161 71 2536
Room 4107.I.104

Jannet John is a Postdoc at the Chair of Economics of Horticulture and Landscaping at the Technical University of Munich since October 2023. Her research interests are in agricultural and institutional economics, specifically farmer welfare, farmer organisations and sustainable agricultural techniques.

Jannet has a PhD specialising in Food and Agribusiness from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Loyola College (Chennai), India and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Xavier’s College (Ahmedabad), India.

During her PhD, she was a research scholar at the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) for the project ‘The Dynamics of Urban Sprawl: land-use changes, food supply and sustainable agricultural production systems in the arid and semi-arid zones’ supported by the Swedish research council for sustainable development (FORMAS). As part of the project, she conducted primary farmer surveys to investigate the impact of the increase in urban sprawl on Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in the states of Telangana and Maharashtra in India.

Before starting to work on her PhD, Jannet worked at Goldman Sachs in the investment banking sector. Post PhD, she has worked as an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Jindal School of Banking and Finance (JSBF), part of Jindal Global University (JGU) in India.

Scientific publications

  • Bhatt, A., & John, J. (2023). Including Farmers’ Welfare in a Government-led Sector Transition: The Case of Sikkim’s Shift to Organic Agriculture. Journal of Cleaner Production 411 online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137207
  • Case Study - Ghosh, R., John, J., & Tank, N. (2023). Indiagro Farmer Producer Company: Value Chain Management and Institutional Voids in Agri-Markets. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad – Distributed through Harvard Business Publishing and IVEY Publishing.
  • https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/A00384-PDF-ENG?Ntt=indiagro

Publication List

Selected Presentations

  • John, J. (2023). Overcoming institutional voids in agricultural product markets– Analyzing the role of autonomy among farmer organizations, Online paper development workshop by Research Policy (RP) and the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management, June 2023
  • John, J., Ghosh, R., Vidya, V., Lagerkvist, CJ., (2022). Do Producer Companies help remediate institutional voids in the agricultural product market? Evidence from Telangana, India, Poster presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) conference, California, USA, August 2022
  • John, J., Bhatt, A., Varma, P., (2019). Impact of Minimum Support Price Policy and National Food Security Mission on the Production of Pulses in India, Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) conference, Atlanta, USA, July 2019
  • Bhatt, A. and John, J. (2018). Including Farmers’ Interests in a Government Driven Agriculture Sector Transition to Organic: The Case of Sikkim, Accepted for paper presentation at International Conference on Sustainability and Business, IIM Kolkata, India, January 2018
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