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Career
Nitya Rao completed her education with a Ph.D. in Gender and Development from the University of East Anglia i n 2002. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the University of East Anglia as a Lecturer where she has remained. She is currently Professor, Gender and Development at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has worked extensively as a researcher, practitioner, and advocate in the field of women’s rights, empowerment, and education. At present, Nitya is a member of the Steering Group of the High Level Panel of Experts to the Committee on Global Food Security, with oversight for the 16th HLPE Report on youth engagement.

Research
Nitya Rao's focus throughout all her activities, thus: social activist, teacher, trainer and researcher, is on the theme of gender equality and women's empowerment. Within this theme, she has a wide range of related interdisciplinary issues that she addresses, including resource rights, social equality, and rural development.

Her book, "Good women do not inherit Land: Politics of Land and Gender in India", was published by Social Science Press and Orient Blackswan in New Delhi in 2008 and reprinted in 2012. This demonstrates her interest in understanding land use change and agrarian relations, as well as food and nutrition security and, by extension, the well-being of marginalised (often female), predominantly rural communities who are affected by various difficulties such as climate change or economic insecurity.

Current projects
The project "Meeting the SDGs: Creating Innovative Infrastructures and Policy Solutions to Support Sustainable Development in the Global South" (October 2019 to December 2021) is part of a larger UEA grant.

Another current research project is "Tigr2ess: Transforming India's Green Revolution through Research and Empowerment for Sustainable Food Supplies" (2017-2021). This is about a partnership between India and the UK to achieve a Green Revolution in India with influence on setting the policy agenda, and to identify and agree on joint research programs focused on sustainable production and resource use. The focus is on rural youth, with women farmers also playing an important role and the goal of food security.

As part of a European-Indian partnership, India, Norway, France, Slovenia and the United Kingdom are working together on the "Costal Transformations and Fisher Wellbeing" project (2019-2022). The aim is to work towards transformative change at the political and community level.

Nitya Rao's geographic research focus is South Asia, particularly India, but she has also conducted research in the eastern part of Africa such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. As we can see, these are regions where climate change poses a serious threat and contributes to reinforcing gender inequality.

With over 117 “Research outputs” she has contributed much to the scholarly discussion on gender equality and empowerment in the Global South, and her voice has gained much prominence in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that her work has been cited over 3555 times, with 2128 of the citations occurring since 2018.

Selected publications
Rao, N., Narain, N., Chakraborty, S., Bhanjdeo, A. and A. Pattnaik (2020) Destinations Matter: Social Policy and Migrant workers in the times of Covid. European Journal of Development Research. DOI: 10.1057/s41287-020-00326-4

Rao, N., (2020) The achievement of food and nutrition security in South Asia is deeply gendered. Nature Food. 1(April): 206-209. Doi:10.1038/s43016-020-0059-0.

Rao, N. and R. Manimohan (2020). (Re-)Negotiating Gender and Class: New Forms of Cooperation Among Small-Scale Fishers in Tamil Nadu. UNRISD Occasional Paper 11. 32 p.

Rao, N., Singh, C., Solomon, D., et al. (2020). Managing risk, changing aspirations and household dynamics: implications for wellbeing and adaptation in semi-arid Africa and India. World Development. Vol 125. 104667:15p.

Rao, N and S. Raju (2019) Gendered time, seasonality and nutrition: Insights from two Indian districts. Feminist Economics. 26(2): 95-125.

Rao, N (2019) From abandonment to autonomy: gendered strategies for coping with climate change, Isiolo country, Kenya. Geoforum. 102: 27-37.

Rao, N., Gazdar, H., Chanchani, D. and M. Ibrahim (2019) Women’s agricultural work and nutrition in South Asia: From pathways to a cross-disciplinary, grounded analytical framework.

Food Policy. 82: 50-62.