Jagannatha Rao

Biography

Achievements: 1. Developed methodology for Planning Sustainable Management of Medicinal Plants in India and Nepal, covering seven medicinal plant species namely Cinnamomum macrocarpum, Vateria indica, Garcinia gummi-gutta, Decalepis hamiltonii, Limomia acidissima, Azadirachta indica, Gymnema sylvestre – a collaborative project of Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Forestry Research Programme of DFID, UK and Forest Action, Nepal. 2. Coordinated establishing 32 Medicinal Plants Conservation Areas in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa and West Bengal and developed sustainable harvesting practices for 17 species and field implemented in Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka under the project “National Programme on Promoting Conservation of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Knowledge for Enhancing Health and Livelihood Security” supported by UNDP and facilitated by MoEF &CC, Government of India. 3. Provided technical support to establish 15 Medicinal Plants Conservation Area in Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand and developed case study on sustainable harvesting practices for 11 species under the project “Mainstreaming Conservation and Sustainable use of Medicinal Plants” supported by Global Environmental Facility, UNDP and MoEF&CC, Government of India 4. Designed, developed and field implemented sustainable harvesting protocols, Value Addition and Marketing facility for 33 species of conservation concern and high traded Medicinal Plants in collaboration with State Forest Department of Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Nagaland, and National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Government of India. 5. Contributed to REED+ programme of Forest Plus India, USAID, by developing tools, techniques for sustainable harvesting of important NTFPs in Shimoga, landscape in Karnataka, India 6. Designed and field implemented training and capacity building programmes on conservation, sustainable harvesting, natural resource management and waste management covering more than 400 community based organizations and around 3500 people under various programmes in India and aboard with the support of World Bank, JICA, Plant Life UK, Ford Foundation, NMPB and MoEF&CC 7. Designed and promoted unique training programme called “Community to Community Training (CTCT) – a horizontal and cost effective method of training on natural resource management for local community and prepared the manual on Trainers of Training (ToT) on NTFP resource management to integrate NTFP curriculum into regular and in-service trainings of State Forest Departments across India.

Research Interest

1. Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources – special reference to NTFPs and Medicinal Plants 2. Adoption of participatory science in resource assessment and monitoring 3. Evaluation of ecosystem services and ecological monitoring 4. Sustainable harvesting/management of resources, herbal quality assurance and regulatory affairs 5. Biodiversity conservation, Forest ecology and management, REED+ and climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA) 6. Natural governance and community owned enterprises 7. Organic certification, national and international standards for wild resource management 8. Capacity building and Training different stakeholders involved in natural resource management