RESEARCH PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS & OPEN ACCESS
Agriculture, Rural Economy, Rural Finance, Climate Finance and Carbon Markets
Manoj Kumar Rawat is an agriculture, rural banking, development-finance and climate-finance practitioner, author and independent researcher. His work focussed on how finance, policy, institutions, technology and market systems can strengthen agriculture, rural livelihoods, smallholder prosperity and sustainable economic development.
Research Profiles & Repositories
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Featured Research
Selected current research across agriculture, rural finance, development finance, climate finance and carbon markets.
Working Paper
2026
The Carbon Handshake Architecture: From Verified Carbon to Settled Farmer Income
An end-to-end institutional architecture for converting verified climate-positive agricultural activity into transparent, timely and fairly shared farmer income.
10.5281/zenodo.21759258
SSRN · Zenodo · Figshare · OSF · Harvard Dataverse · ResearchGate · Academia.edu
Research-Support Package
2026
The Carbon Handshake Architecture: Research-Support Package for Smallholder Carbon Finance in India
A non-empirical package of institutional, digital, financial, safeguards, settlement and pilot-evaluation tools supporting the working paper.
10.7910/DVN/FALTZN
Harvard Dataverse · Zenodo · ResearchGate · Academia.edu
Research, Publications, Books & Datasets
Working papers, books, datasets, methodology reports and research-support materials across agriculture, rural finance, development finance, climate finance and carbon markets.
Working Paper
2026
Working paper / preprint · Version 1.0
The Carbon Handshake Architecture
An end-to-end institutional architecture for converting verified climate-positive agricultural activity into transparent, timely and fairly shared farmer income.
10.5281/zenodo.21759258
Research & Publication Records
Research-Support Package
2026
Published open research package · Version 1.0
Carbon Handshake Research-Support Package
A non-empirical package of institutional, digital, financial, safeguards, settlement and pilot-evaluation tools supporting the working paper.
10.7910/DVN/FALTZN
Research & Publication Records
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Practitioner Book
2026
Published practitioner book
The Carbon Handshake
The practitioner work behind the Golden Suture, Digital Spine, 1:10 Multiplier and 80:20 Rule, focused on smallholder carbon-finance delivery and settlement.
Research & Publication Records
Methodology Paper
2025
Published open research paper
Carbon Credit Methodology and Framework
A reproducible framework connecting emissions accounting, carbon-credit estimation, NPV, IRR and carbon-price sensitivity across energy, agriculture, forestry and waste.
10.2139/ssrn.5720382
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Dataset and Methodology Report
2025
Published open dataset · Version 1.1
Carbon Credit Dataset & Financial Modelling
An open package of emission baselines, carbon-credit calculations, NPV and IRR models, price-sensitivity tools, documentation, metadata and sector templates.
10.7910/DVN/W2D7H2
Research & Publication Records
Research records will appear here
Practitioner Book / Open Edition
2025
Published book · Open edition available
Carbon Credit: A Beginner’s Guide
An accessible practitioner guide to carbon markets, climate finance, emissions accounting, MRV, policy and India’s emerging carbon economy.
10.2139/ssrn.5693642
Research & Publication Records
Open Access & Citation
Research outputs are made available through recognised repositories, publishing platforms and persistent identifiers wherever possible. Please cite the version or record used, using the DOI or bibliographic information provided on the individual research page.
Institutional & Professional Use
The research and publications are intended for financial institutions, policymakers, development organisations, academic institutions, researchers and practitioners working across agriculture, rural finance, development finance, climate finance and carbon markets.
For institutional discussions, speaking engagements or research collaboration, please use the contact section below are write to me at connect@manojrawat.com.