Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair is a highly respected international agricultural scientist with over three decades of experience working in Europe, Africa and Asia. During his illustrious career, he has held numerous esteemed academic positions, including the National Chair of the Science Foundation at the Royal Society in Belgium, Professor and Head of the Department of Agriculture, Soil Sciences and Basic Sciences at the University Center in the Republic of Cameroon, and Senior Professor at the University of Fort Hare in the Republic of South Africa – the alma mater of the late Nelson Mandela and where he began his fight against apartheid. Professor Nair is globally renowned for his groundbreaking work in developing “The Nutrient Buffer Power Concept”, a revolutionary soil management technique that is transforming the face of modern farming in the developing world. He has been honored with several national and international awards for developing this concept andwas nominated for the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize. He is also the author of ten books, including "Issues in National and International Agriculture", which was launched by India’s great President, the late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Raj Bhavan, Chennai, India. He has received seven invitations to contribute invitational chapters to Advances in Agronomy, the magnum opus of agricultural science, a world record. He is also a Senior Fellow of the world renowned Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation, the Federal Republic of Germany and was recently elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. Currently, he is pursuing global agricultural research and resides in Calicut, Kerala, India with his wife, Dr. Pankajam Nair, a nematologist trained in Europe.
