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​PURABI BOSE





Forests & Indigenous Peoples



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 CURIOUS MIND // CREATIVE SOUL 

Author. Communicator. Researcher. 
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My story is working with communities on forest and land tenure, food sovereignty, climate, energy, and gender. 
I ventured into this work with a background in food science, textile chemistry, human development, and anthropology followed by specialised fellowships in Training in Environment Education, and the Local-level Forest Governance. 
​Using anthropology, political ecology and ethnographic approach, I examine the complexity in local-level governance to explore meaningful solutions for rural communities, pastoralists, forest-dwellers. indigenous peoples, including focus on women and social diversity. I have an expertise in interdisciplinary science and evidence-based empirical fieldwork with qualitative and ethnography research methodology on issues in tropical landscape countries of Latin America, East Africa, and South  and South Asia.  
Close to my heart is communicating the results and making science accessible to multi-stakeholder audience. I do so by using multi-media such as photo and story books, articles, write-shops, academic lectures, edited volumes, conference talks, news articles, blogs, and documentary films in indigenous languages.   
I hold an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Wageningen University and Masters degree from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. 


2021-present: I work at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) as a Senior Lecturer in Forest Policy. Before coming to Sweden, I became an independent non-profit self-funded filmmaker (2016-till date), facilitator and author  for UN FAO, UNAM among others in India, Mexico and Uganda; 2013-2015 I was based in Cali, Colombia working for CGIAR research institute CIAT; 2012 I was in Potsdam, Germany with a think tank; 2008-2011 I lived in the Netherlands to complete my PhD ; 2006-2007 I did various independent consultancy projects in Brazil, Zimbabwe and India; 2002-2005 I was resident in Bogor, Indonesia working for CGIAR research institute CIFOR; 2001 as a consultant I lived in Pokhara, Nepal; 2000 I was based in Mumbai working for philantrophy, Tata Trust; 1998-2000 my base of career began with an NGO based in tribal districts of Dahod, Banswara and Jhabua in western India; 1997, I worked for Pratham education initiative in Mumbai. 
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My forthcoming publication (2024) that I am writing as a sole-author is an evidence-based book entitled,  Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge: Voices from the Tropical Forests. 
​Each chapter reflects a comparative field work data that I have collected from indigenous territories of Amazonia region (Brazil, Peru, Colombia), Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, Bolivia, Mexico, and all across mainland and Northeast India. 

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 'KABZA' ​Purabi Bose's documentary, depicts how forest land diversion for mining has impacted indigenous tribes. 
~ Suryasarathi Bhattacharya , FIRSTPOST.COM Journalist  (Nov 5, 2019)


Read  the news article about Purabi's  Kabza  film review here 
​ https://www.firstpost.com/living/kabza-purabi-boses-documentary-depicts-how-forest-land-diversion-for-mining-has-impacted-indigenous-tribes-7555721.html

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