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Anandajit Goswami is an economist by training and has research interests on the interfaces of economic modelling, ecological, resource, macro, micro, international trade and developmental economics, and sustainability science from an interdisciplinary lens.As TERI Africa Coordinator, he was based at United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa where he coordinated South-South Cooperation initiatives. He has led projects supported by Asian Development Bank and UK-Aid on macroeconomic and welfare implications of tax, subsidies on petroleum products. He specializes in Computable General Equilibrium modeling, value chain based and econometric macro-modeling. He has also worked on projects applying input- output modeling, social accounting matrix based activity modeling, and energy risk modeling. He has worked as a consultant with WWF India on econometric modelling for assessing certain aspects of sustainability. As a consultant he has also worked with National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (under NITI Aayog). He has been associated with various South-South cooperation knowledge exchange programmes, supported by UNECA, United Nations Industrial Developmental Organization, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Ministry of Water and Energy, Government of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network, Addis Ababa University.

Anandajit has written India's first children science fiction bookon sustainability titled - "Lucy and The Train: Tryst with Sustainability" published by TERI Press and has coauthored and coedited two reference books on sustainability titled - "Sustainability Science for Social, Economic and Environmental Development" and "Economic Modelling, Analysis and Policy for Sustainability" published by IGI Global from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He has published papers in peer reviewed journals and contributed chapters to books. He has co-authored a booklet on South South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange issues and edited a booklet related to regulatory issues on biofuels.

He has been giving talks on “Economics of Sustainability” in South South Knowledge exchange programmes. He has initiated a "Music for Sustainability" programme to work with national and international musicians on the issue of sustainability. Other than this, he has contributed popular articles in newspapers and blogs for Economist, Reuters Foundation. Presently, Anandajit is a member of International and Indian Society for Ecological Economics. He is pursuing a Ph.d at TERI University on nonlinear dynamic system analysis of rural energy transition and has obtained Masters in International Economics with Specialization in World Economy from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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CHILD SAFEGUARDING POLICY

Reinvigoration of Food, Farming

Coordinator : Seal Muda

Director : Anandajit Goswami

Introduction:
Seal Muda is the founder of Pure Systems and Logistics Private Limited since March 2015. The enterprise focuses on sustainable agribusiness to include animal husbandry, poultry, crop production and marketing. The enterprise is self-funded through the initial capital from shareholder and the retained incomes. The enterprise aims to expand its capacity through capitalization from donations, retained earnings and debt. With improved economic conditions in the country, the enterprise envisages huge productivity in the business.

Objective:
To sustainably carry on the business of farming, market gardening, horticulture, tree planting, fruit growing, growing of all other kinds of crops, grazing, ranching, dairy, breeding of and dealing in poultry, wild life and all other kinds of livestock and farm products.

Location:
Central Estates (Mvuma), Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa

Scalability:
The above capacity is projected to scale up by over 4 times by 2019 of which the land shall be scaled to 60 hectares.