Abhijeet holds a Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, based on his research on role of forestry in global land use scenarios for mitigating climate change. He also holds a master's degree in Nutrition and Rural Development with a major in Rural Economics and Management from Ghent University, Belgium and a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.
He joined PIK in the fall of 2016 as a PhD researcher under RD3 flagship “Land-use management”. The focus of his PhD research was on quantifying the mitigation potential of timber cities and global forest protection policies by integrating a dynamic forestry sector in the open-source land-use model MAgPIE.
Abhijeet works for The International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC, USA since January 2023 where he works in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
Affliliations
International Food Policy Research Institute
Contact (as of 01.2023)
Eye Street, 1201 I St NW, Washington, DC, USA 20005
A.Mishra[at]cgiar.org
- Forests as components of overall land system.
- Climate change mitigation via forest management.
- Partial equilibrium modeling (Contributing developer to land-use model MAgPIE)
- Optimal rotation lengths for forest plantations (Faustmann model)
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Mishra, A., Sulser, T.B., Gabriel, S., Cenacchi, N., Dunston, S., Headey, D., Herrero, M., Mason-D’Croz, D. and Wiebe, K., 2025. Affordability and nutritional challenges for the future of EAT diets: an economic modelling analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(10).
- Rockström, J., Thilsted, S.H., Willett, W.C., Gordon, L.J., Herrero, M., Hicks, C.C., Mason-D'Croz, D., Rao, N., Springmann, M., Wright, E.C. and Agustina, R., 2025. The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. The Lancet, 406(10512), pp.1625-1700.
- Sundiang, M., Oliveira, T.D., Mason-D’Croz, D., Gibson, M., Beier, F., Benavidez, L., Bodirsky, B.L., Bos, A., Chepeliev, M., Chen, D.M.C. and de Lange, T., 2025. Bundling measures for food systems transformation: a global, multimodel assessment. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(10).
- Thom, F., Beier, F., Gibson, M., Sundiang, M., Chen, D., de Lange, T., Luchtenbelt, H., Tassinari, G., Mishra, A. and Oliveira, T.D., 2025. Between code and conscience: early-career researcher reflections on agroeconomic modelling and international research collaboration. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(10).
- Singh, V., Stevanović, M., Bodirsky, B.L., Mishra, A., Ghosh, R.K., Popp, A. and Lotze-Campen, H., 2025. A comparison of the effects of local and EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations on selected economic and environmental outcomes in India. Food Policy, 134, p.102898.
- Cenacchi, N., Petsakos, A., Robertson, R.D., Song, C. and Mishra, A., 2025. Landscape Complexity as Determined by Socioeconomic Trends, Climate Change, and Broad Agricultural Policies.
- Rosegrant, M.W., Sulser, T.B., Dunston, S., Mishra, A., Cenacchi, N., Gebretsadik, Y., Robertson, R., Thomas, T. and Wiebe, K., 2024. Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions. Global Food Security, 41, p.100755.
- Mishra, A., Humpenöder, F., Reyer, C. P. O., Beier, F., H. J., Lotze-Campen, H., & Popp, A. Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion. Environmental Research Letters. 2024 Apr 24. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad42b4
- Mishra, A., Humpenöder, F., Churkina, G., Reyer, C. P. O., Beier, F., Bodirsky, B. L., Schellnhuber, H. J., Lotze-Campen, H., & Popp, A. Transition to timber cities can help reduce carbon emissions without increasing competition for land. Nature Communications. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32244-w
- Doelman JC, Beier F, Stehfest E, Bodirsky BL, Beusen AH, Humpenöder F, Mishra A, Popp A, van Vuuren DP, de Vos L, Weindl I. Quantifying synergies and trade-offs in the global Water-Land-Food-Climate nexus using a multi-model scenario approach. Environmental Research Letters. 2022 Feb 21.
- Mishra, A., Humpenöder, F., Dietrich, J. P., Bodirsky, B. L., Sohngen, B., P. O. Reyer, C., Lotze-Campen, H., and Popp, A.: Estimating global land system impacts of timber plantations using MAgPIE 4.3.5, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 6467–6494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6467-2021, 2021.
- Bodirsky BL, Dietrich JP, Martinelli E, Stenstad A, Pradhan P, Gabrysch S, Mishra A, Weindl I, Le Mouël C, Rolinski S, Baumstark L. The ongoing nutrition transition thwarts long-term targets for food security, public health and environmental protection. Scientific Reports. 2020 Oct 5.
- Chen DM, Bodirsky BL, Krueger T, Mishra A, Popp A. The world’s growing municipal solid waste: Trends and impacts. Environmental Research Letters. 2020 Apr 3. | DOI
- Dietrich JP, Bodirsky BL, Humpenöder F, Weindl I, Stevanović M, Karstens K, Kreidenweis U, Wang X, Mishra A, Klein D, Ambrósio G. MAgPIE 4–a modular open-source framework for modeling global land systems. Geoscientific Model Development. 2019 Apr 1;12(4). | DOI
Book chapters
- Robertson, R.D., Cenacchi, N. and Mishra, A., 2025. What do we know about the future of land in relation to food systems?.
- Cenacchi, N., Sulser, T.B. and Mishra, A., 2025. What do we know about the future of food demand, production, and food security based on IMPACT model projections?.
Others
- MAgPIE | Release | Documentation | DOI
- Contributions to Potsdam Integrated Assessment Modeling | R Package list
- Data processing scripts for Farm Accountancy Data Network statistics (BE) | Release | DOI
- Mishra, A., & Buysse, J. (2016). Modeling the Impact of Climate Change at Farm Level: The Case of Belgium. Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
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Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Scholarship - European Union (2014-2016)
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National Talent Scholarship - Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India (2009-2013)
