Intern - Sustainable Agriculture

Overview

WRI India's Food, Land and Water program is seeking a Research Intern to support its work on the role of carbon finance in enabling the transition toward more sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural systems in India, with a focus on rice-based systems.

What you'll do

• Conduct landscape assessments of agricultural carbon projects across selected carbon registries, focusing on eligible activities and sustainable agricultural practices, and extract specific information from project documentation using a predefined data collection framework.
• Conduct a comparative assessment of rice emission-reduction methodologies across selected carbon registries.
• Analyze extracted data to identify trends in project scale, geographic distribution, implementation approaches, GHG mitigation potential, carbon credit issuance and the adoption of different agricultural practices.
• Prepare a structured project database, a comparative methodology matrix, data visualizations and a concise analytical note summarizing key findings.
• Support policy review to identify policies, schemes and institutional support for promoting sustainable rice cultivation practices.

What you'll need

• Postgraduate degree in Environmental Sciences, Agriculture, Climate Change, Agricultural Economics or related disciplines.
• Strong desk research and data analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• General awareness of carbon markets and carbon crediting mechanisms, along with key issues in Indian agriculture.
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner.
• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team.

Nice to have

• Exposure to data analysis or visualization tools such as R, Python or Power BI.
• Ability to think critically and creatively.

Details

• Location: New Delhi
• Employment type: Internship, 3 months (extendable up to 4 months)
• Stipend: INR 25,000 per month
• Application materials: cover letter, CV of no more than 2 A4 pages, and a writing sample demonstrating analytical capabilities; finalized candidate will be required to take a writing test.