Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Hossain

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Hossain is an expert in sustainable agriculture and policy research on rural transformation, organic agriculture, climate resilience, and inclusive growth with more than 31 years of experience in national research, non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations. Professionally championing organic and agroecological approaches, social and gender inclusion, green enterprising, climate resilience, food loss and waste management, Dr. Tanveer’s research focuses on empowering marginalized rural communities, fostering knowledge exchange and delivering actionable solutions to enhance livelihoods and food security across the region. His extensive research on innovative organic agriculture on small farmers’ living conditions has resulted improvement of rural livelihood and brought several professional awards in his career.
Currently, Dr. Tanveer serves as Director, Policy and Strategy of IFOAM-Organics Asia. He is an Ambassador for IFOAM-Organics International, Asian Local Government for Organic Agriculture (ALGOA) and Access Agriculture. Formerly, he served in different organizations such as Senior Program Officer, Agriculture Unit of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO)-Japan, Sustainable Agriculture Advisor of Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) and Senior Scientist of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI). He is pioneer of “Integrated rice-duck-farming” and “Organic sack gardening technology” in Bangladesh. Dr. Tanveer was awarded the grand prize of the Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA) by the IFOAM-Organics International and RDA, South Korea in 2011 and Hivos Social Innovation Award in 2015 at Amsterdam. He was previously Vice-President of IFOAM-Asia and had has published around 50 scientific articles including over 25 related on organic agriculture and agroecology. Tanveer is a Council Member of Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM (TIPI) and Vice-chair of Global Landcare, registered in Australia.

Dr. Tanveer holds a doctorate in Agriculture (organic rice) from the Ehime University, Japan in 2008.