P.V. Vara Prasad is a Distinguished Professor, an R.O. Kruse-Endowed Professor in the Department of Agronomy, and the Director of the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India) and his Ph.D. from the University of Reading (United Kingdom). His research focuses on understanding the crop responses to changing environments and developing the best management strategies to improve and protect yields. He is passionate about research, education, and outreach activities and about building human and institutional capacity. He has active programs in several countries in Africa and Asia focused on improving the livelihoods of people and providing food and nutritional security to smallholder farmers. He has published >320 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His research has been cited >17,300 times with an h-index of 69 and i-10-index of 195. He has trained >160 students and research scholars, given >100 invited talks in 40 countries, and received > USD 120 million (about USD 80 million as principal investigator) in grant funding and donations. He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as the President of the Crop Science Society of America and on the International Commission on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification.