Name: 
Ram Hari Timilsina
Designation: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology
Email: 
[email protected]
Mobile: 
9855052943​
Professional Experiences: 
1. Former Head of the Department
2. Former Academic Council Member-Agriculture and Forestry University
Scientific Publications: 

Recent:

1. Khanal A., Gurung R. K. , Timilsina R.H, and Poudel S. (2023). Food Safety Awareness, Food Policies, and Gender: A Review and an Empirical Examination from Nepal. Nepal Policy Research Institute 10.59552/nppr.v3i1.62

2. Timilsina R. H. and Nepali P. (2022). Social Media: An Innovative Approach of Agricultural Extension Services in Nepal. Global Perspectives on Journalism in Nepal: Nepalese News Media in the Twenty–First Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003139430.

3. Pragya Kandel, Kabita Kharel, Anastasia Njoroge, Bradley W. Smith, Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama, Ram H. Timilsina, Gokul P. Paudel & Dieudonne Baributsa, (2021). "On-Farm Grain Storage and Challenges in Bagmati Province, Nepal," Sustainability, MDPI, Open Access Journal, vol. 13(14), pages 1-13, July. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147959

4. Timilsina, R. H., Ojha, G. P., Nepali, P. B., & Tiwari, U. (2019). Agriculture land use in Nepal: prospects and impacts on food security. Journal of Agriculture and Forestry University, 3, 1.

Ongoing Researches: 

Drivers of Safer Food Production and Consumption in Nepal: Understanding the Adoption of Food Safety Practices and Consumer Consciousness in Fresh Produce, 2022-2024.

This project is funded by USAID and the Food Safety Innovation Lab as part of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative. The lead Institution is Tennessee State University (TSU). Partner organizations are Arizona State University (ASU), Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Nepal and SAHAVAGI, Nepal.

Research Interests: 
1. Adoption
2. Agricultural Communication-ICT
3. Extension Approaches
4. Agricultural Land Use
5. Food Safety
6. Willingness to Pay