Siva Muthuprakash K. M. has been working on farming and farmer development indicators for over seven years. He is also a Lok Sabha Research Fellow (2018-20). He had done his Ph.D. from Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IIT Bombay. Having both his graduation and post-graduation in Biotechnology, he has research experience in wet laboratories as well. He had briefly worked at Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, Chennai. His research interests include sustainable and remunerative farming, food security and safety, systems thinking, and agriculture and food policies.