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Parakrama Samaratunga


Parakrama Samaratunga is currently a Research Fellow and Head of Agricultural Economic Policy research at the IPS. Prior to joining the IPS in 2003, he served in the Department of Agriculture of Sri Lanka, first as an Agricultural Economist and later as the Director, Socio-Economics and Planning. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer in several universities in Sri Lanka and currently serves in the teaching panel of the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA) at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. During his career, he has served in many national level committees on agricultural development and policy and served numerous private and non-governmental organizations as a consultant. His research interests are in agricultural, natural resource and environmental economics.

 
Parakrama Samaratunga
 Advisory Work
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Parakrama Samaratunga received his BSc (Agriculture) with honours from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and went on to specialize in agricultural economics at post graduate level and earned his M.S from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos. He received his PhD in the field of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

  
 

Advisory Work

Government of Sri Lanka

  • Advisory Board to the Rice Research and Development Institute of Sri Lanka
    Member of the Board
    January 2007-to date
  • Committee on WTO Negotiations on Agriculture
    Consultant
    Department of Commerce
    March 2007-to date
  • Committee of Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy (CARP) for Setting Agricultural Research Priorities
    Member of the Committee
    2004 – April 2007

Recent Publications

  • “Mapping and Analysis of the South Asian Agricultural Trade Liberalization Efforts" (with K. Karunagoda and M. Thibboutwawa), in ESCAP (eds), Agricultural Trade: Planting the Seeds of Regional Liberalization in Asia, A Study by the Asia Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade, Studies in Trade and Investment 60, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
  • “Regional Agricultural Trade Liberalization Efforts in South Asia: Retrospect and Prospect” (with K. Karunagoda and M. Thibbotuwawa), ARTNeT Policy Brief, No. 10, Asia Pacific Research and Training Network, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand. 2006.
  • “Rural Land Sector in Sri Lanka: Major Characteristics, Determinants and Implications for Land Policy”, Agricultural Policy Series No.7, IPS, Colombo, 2006.
  • “Are Rental Markets for Land Helping the Poor in Sri Lanka” (with D. Marawila) in Diana Montero Melis et al (eds.), Putting Land First? Exploring Links between Land and Poverty, Centre for Poverty Analysis, Colombo, 2006.
  • “Trade Liberalization and its Impact on Rice Sector of Sri Lanka" (with M.I.M. Rafeek), Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol.3, No.1, 2000.
  • "Changes in Rice Production Stability with the spread of New Technology and Its Implications: The Case of Sri Lanka", Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1991.
  • "Econometric Modelling for Markets with Consumer Commodity Rationing: An Application to Rice in Sri Lanka, 1957 – 1978”, Sri Lanka Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1988.

Recent Reports

  • “Innovative Practices in Integrating Small Farmers in to Dynamic Supply Chains: A Case Study of on MA’S Tropical Food Company” (with M. Thibbotuwawa), Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2006.