Dr Satish Sharma

Dr. Satish Kumar Sharma is a retired Forest Officer of Rajasthan Forest Services. He worked in Forest Department in Rajasthan for more than 36 years. In 1991, he completed his first PhD degree from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He completed his other PhD in 2007 from Mohan Lal Sukhadiya University, Udaipur. Both his PhD degrees are from science stream. He completed his Forestry Certificate Course with a Gold Medal from Southern Forest Rangers College Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in 1985.

As an active researcher, he published more than 650 research papers and popular research articles in national and international journals. He has written 11books and is a recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships, some of them are mentioned below:

• Strong Prize for Wild life Management (SFDC, Coimbatore T.N.),1985.
• Gorakh Dr. Prasad Puraskar (Allahabad), 1986.
• Akhil Bhartiya Vaniki Puraskar, FRI Dehradun, 1990.
• Sahin Ali Wildlife National Fellowship (Govt. of India).
• Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Puraskar (Govt. of India), 1998.
• Medini Puraskar(Govt. of India), 1999 & 2006.

During his tenure at Forest Department, he was awarded by Government of Rajasthan for several times.

Dr Sharma has a vast experience in forest and wildlife management, forest and grass land restoration, soil and water conservation, zoo management, creation of herbal and botanical gardens etc. He is a life time member of many scientific and research organization and now also serving himself directly or indirectly as a faculty of different universities and training organizations.

Mr. Jay Anand

Mr. Jay Anand serves as a Sr. Vice President, inCarbonwatch India Limited, Delhi, India. He has more than eighteen years of experience in the development sector and has worked on various issues related to Carbon Credit in Nature based solutions,  Monitoring and Evaluation, Natural Resource Management, Climate change adaptation & mitigation strategies, Ecosystem Services and Community Based Adaptation, both at the programme and policy levels. He is currently leading a portfolio of projects related to vulnerability assessment, adaptation in water and agriculture, climate risk management training and capacity building. As a development practitioner, he has having wide experience in evidence-based research in India and abroad to deal nexus of water, agriculture and renewable energy. His research focus is on community-based adaptation, vulnerability assessment, environmental governance and policy.

He has experience in the domain of rural transformation and livelihood promotions, Commodities value chain and business development (Farmer Producer Organizations in five commodities), climate risk management training and capacity building. His major research contributions include the development of models and software tools for hydrologic modelling, exposure of fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy computing techniques; GIS and LCA tools used for energy and water programme. Currently, he is working on the impact of climate change on nexus (Water-Agriculture-Forest-Social development). His work on Watershed Management, Hydrological impact Assessment, Geohydrological Modelling and Integrated Hydrological Impact Assessment, Water Audit, Flood hazard assessment, Climate Change Impact Studies (Narmada, Krishna, Kaveri, Subarnarekha river basins), Dam Break analysis (Jindal Steel Power Ltd, Karnataka), Hydrological Modeling (Wakkal Basin),  Decision Support System (Wakkal and Ur Basin), Vulnerability and Adaptation (Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh), Environmental Flow Requirement (Narmada), IWRM (Krishna and Kaveri) are critical. He has significantly contributed to climate change adaptation studies and projects in Agriculture and NRM sectors and has experience in providing training and capacity building in many coastal states of India.

Mr. Suresh Kashliwal

Mr. Suresh Kashliwal graduated in commerce from Maharshi Dayanand University, Ajmer and worked as a Senior Journalist at Rajasthan Patrika &  Danik Bhaskar from 1990-2001. During his work, he covered and highlighted many issues that were very serious on that time like pollution control, deterioration of water quality, climate change, women drudgery in Rajasthan and also about all the policies and schemes issued by the government for village and farmers development. Now also he is very active in publishing news from Rajasthan and is also serving himself as a board member of Sarv Mangal Gramin Vikas Sansthan, (SMGVS).

Er. C L Salvi

Er. Salvi completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Agricultural Engineering, from College of Technology and Agricultural Engineering (CTAE), Udaipur University, Udaipur Rajasthan. Er. C L Salvi brings in more than 35 years of work experience in Rural Development, Panchayati Raj Watershed development & Soil Conservation department in Government of Rajasthan. He possesses a deep understanding of lift irrigation, Soil and Water Conservation, Watershed development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act etc.

He also holds practical experience in the areas of Natural resource management, Participatory Planning, Execution, Supervision and Management of Integrated Watershed Management Projects, strengthening of Local Institutionand identification of Livelihood options for the rural community in semi-arid region of Rajasthan.

As a development anchor he is closely associated with Assistant Engineer for four years in Community Lift Irrigation Schemes in Rural development Department for Survey, Planning, Design and Execution of Community Lift Irrigation Schemes. He had 11 years of service experience as Assistant Engineer in watershed development and soil conservation department, one year experience as Block Development officer in Panchayati Raj department of Govt. of Rajasthan, 4.5 yrs experience as Executive Engineer MGNREGA in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan and lastly 8 years experience as Superintending Engineer Cum Project Manager, Watershed Cell Cum Data Centre Zila Parishad Dungarpur, Udaipur, Karauli, Bhilwara and Bundi districts of Rajasthan. Moreover, having wide knowledge of Selection, Planning, Execution, Supervision and Monitoring of integrated Watershed Management Projects as well as experience of coordination with political personalities and administrative officers. He has a wide experience of print and electronic media visits of rural development works.

Er. Salvi has a very deep knowledge and four years of experience in water concept based Ridge to Valley Planning, execution, supervision and Monitoring of Water Conservation and Water Harvesting structures. He played a lead role in Mukhyamantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyaan SE and PM Watershed Development in Dungarpur and Udaipur District and got honour at State level by Commissioner for his remarkable work in 2017.

Dr. S.K.Singh

Dr. S.K.Singh Joined Agriculture Research Services ARS in 1989 as a Scientist after completing of Master's program at Banaras Hindu University Varanasi; moved to CAZRI Rajasthan as senior Scientist and was elevated to a principal scientist at CSSRI Karnal; was promoted to the Head regional Centre NBSS&LUP Kolkata and became Director of NBSS&LUP at Nagpur in 2014. Dr. Singh is trained in Remote Sensing and GIS and conducted pioneering research in land resource inventory and input based land use planning, efficient crop zoning, fallow land mapping, Bhoomi Geoportal and customized digital assistants; proactively involved popularizing natural resource management as discipline; launched a countrywide programme of Land Resource Inventory and land Use Planning for the Farmers; developed land use plan for the apparitional districts of India notified by NITI Aayog, New Delhi; coordinated the activities of Indian Science Congress Kolkata as president for Agriculture and Forestry Section and Clay Mineral Society of India, New Delhi; notable contribution global organic carbon mapping, soil organic carbon map of India and the concept of sustainable agriculture inclusive of arable and non-arable land; represented ICAR in FAO for Asian Soil Partnership and debated  on land acquisition act before parliamentary committee, farm bills and participated in High level  policy dialogue on the investment on agriculture research and education; reviewer of many international journals and the part of editorial board of Indian Journals; contributed 481 research items, of which 300 research papers for national and international repute, seven books, nine copyrights, many atlases, bulletins and monograph; established industry-institutional linkage and working on the convergence of Agro technologies across the disciplines for professional agriculture land use planning. Recipient of Indian Science Congress and FAI awards.

My citation: http://scholar.google.co.in/citation?user=sZ1XvmiAAAAJ&hi=en

Researchgate:http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surendra Singh-32

Dr. Shailendra Nath Pandey

Dr. Shailendra Nath Pandey brings in more than 25 years of work experience in development sector. He possesses a deep understanding of India’s agriculture, livestock and livelihood sector particularly smallholder agriculture and agriculture extension with a strong focus on gender and women empowerment as well as entrepreneurship.

He also holds demonstrative experience in the areas of Natural resource management, Participatory Planning and Management, Monitoring and evaluation, strengthening of Local Institution, network management and identification of Livelihood options for the rural community in semi-arid region of central India.

As a development anchor closely associated with projects and programme on integrated farming system, Watershed management, Climate change, women empowerment, promotion of farmer producer organization, financial inclusion for women and farmers, he has delivered several successful projects for the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, NIDM, NABARD, GIZ, UNDP, WWF, CSR and Government of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, among others. He led the project for Promotion of Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) for implementation of sustainable farming practices, adopting the post- harvest agri-business activities through the promotion of farmer’s collectives and strengthening agricultural value chains for NABARD.

Dr.Pandey travelled across Asia and Europe for sharing natural resource management knowledgeconnect to practices and policy interface in different forum. Heacts as observer in CoP21 in Paris2016. He also serves as a member State watershed committee of Government of M.P. and NABARD WDF and TDF fund for U.P.

Dr. Pandey is an Agriculture graduate acquired Masters and Ph.D. degree in Agricultural extension and education from CCS Haryana Agriculture University Hisar, India.

Mr. Ajay Kumar Saxena, Ph.D.

An ecologist, forester and biologist with about two decades of diverse research and work experience in United Nations (FAO, UNDP and UNESCO), Governments, reputed NGOs and research institutions on subjects related to biodiversity conservation, climate change, forestry, ecology, sustainable development, etc. He is internationally trained with degrees from reputed institutions and universities in Europe and USA in the subjects of biodiversity related Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) such as CITES, CMS,CBD etc as well as environmental governance, ecological economics etc. He is a globally certified expert from India on biodiversity conventions with particular focus on international trade in threatened species of plants and animals. His interest areas are natural resource based sustainable development, bio resource markets development, ecosystem based climate change solutions, sustainable uses of biodiversity, forest governance, etc. He is an alumni of Delhi University, Forest Research Institute (University), India, Universidad International de Andalucía, Spain, Technical University of Dresden, Germany and Duke University, USA.