Scientific Outreach

Purabi's passion and ease for networking and advocacy provides her an advantage to contribute in knowledge management.
​She has been organizing and facilitating various international events contributing towards meta knowledge and partnerships for policy advocacy. 

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS & INVITED KEYNOTES

 a few selected oral presentations from 100+ invited fellowships, seminars and conferences

2019

I. Various presentations at the XXV IUFRO World Congress, Curitiba

Keynote Speaker for  the theme 'Forests for People' at the 25th IUFRO World Congress, 2nd October  

• Keynote title: Communicating with 'people' in scientific forestry discourse. 

Co-chaired a sub-plenary, technical session and poster session: Women and Forest: promoting gender equality, connecting research, public policies and forest management in the tropics. Read here further details: 
https://www.iufro.org/es/media/iufro-spotlights/tying-up-loose-ends-in-gender-equality-in-forestry/

Side-event organised by the UN FAO 'Working Together: What can the regional network communicators do for you?' 

• Setting the scene: why is communicating forestry research so important? 

Other related oral paper and video presentations included

• India's Right to Food Act: Human rights for tribal communities' forest food
• Women in forest governance policy: Analysis and empirical studies from Latin America and Asia
• Forest land for oil palm plantations? A case about indigenous peoples in Northeast India

II. 17th Biennial Conference by the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC), Lima
Conceptualised, led, and co-facilitated a multi-stakeholder dialogue for IUCN's CEESP theme on Governance, Equity and Rights at the XVII Biennial Conference  Funded by IUCN CEESP.

•  Multi- stakeholder dialogue 'Practice to policy impact of forest and nature conservation, governance and equity on indigenous community'.  For details, do read https://www.iucn.org/news/commission-environmental-economic-and-social-policy/201907/key-conservation-indigenous-territories-a-multi-stakeholder-dialogue

III. Presented paper at the 1st Global Harmonisation Initiative (GHI) 

• Food safety vs nutrition security at the GHI World Congress on Food Safety and Security, 24-28 March, 2019 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Funded by the GHI. 

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2018
Lecture and film screening at various places including

• WRI, Washington DC, USA; 
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
• Swedish Agriculture University, Umeå, Sweden;
• Pakhuis,de Zweijger,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2017     

• Commons Citizenship and Social Inclusion: a conceptual framework.  IASC Commons, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 10-14. Funded by AgriTerra.
• Indigenous Peoples and Fragmented Landscapes at the annual Land & Poverty Conference, the World Bank, Washington DC., USA, March 20-24.

2016     

• Minerals and forests: People’s resistance and corporate’s persistence at International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC), Bern, Switzerland, 10-13 May.
• Book launch, Drylands Forests, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 27 May.

2015     

• ​Land tenure, social diversity and livestock for livelihoods of pastoralists at CGIAR, Nairobi, Kenya, 7 June.

2014     

•  Forest tenure, collective rights and gender in India, Uganda and Bolivia, Panel lead, moderator, paper presentation and and E-book launch, IUFRO World Congress, Utah, USA, 05-11 October.
•  Vision of indigenous women in context of COP20, Lima, Peru, 15-16 July. Funded by ONAMIAP and RRI, Peru
• Food sovereignty and genetically modified crops in rural India: A socio-legal analysis, at the Dickinson Law College, State Park, Pennsylvania, USA, 21-22 March. Funded by DLC.

2013     

• Invited presentation for the 2nd regional workshop on Justicia de Genero y Derechos de las Mujeres en la Tenecia Colectiva de los Bosques y Territorios, Managua, Nicaragua, 25-27 September. Funded by Rights and Resource Initiatives, and Nitlapan.
• Introduction to the workshop on the „Gendered Access to Forests and Small Farms in Latin America‟ as a workshop coordinator at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, 21-22 August. Funded by the CRP-FTA Gender
• Invited paper presentation „Gender and Land Reforms: an Analysis‟ at the Sajogyo Institute for Agrarian Studies, Bogor, Indonesia, July 03. Funded by CGIAR.
• Cultural and Political Ethnographic Approach: Analysing Gender Disparity‟. Presentation at the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network Workshop, Montpellier, France, 19-21 June. Funded by CGIAR.
• Paper 1. "Gender, Citizenship, Land Rights in Tribal India‟, and
 Paper 2.  "The Cultural Dimension of Land Governance in Tribal India and Uganda: A Micro-Politics Analysis‟. Presentations at the 14th Global conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Mt Fuji, Tokyo, Japan, 03-07 June. Funded by IASC.
• Land Rights and Citizenship in Tribal India: Probing Institutional Governmentality. Presentation and Panel Chair for Resources and Entitlements in Changing Rural Context at the 1st Conference of Procit Research Network on Property and Citizenship in Developing Societies, Copenhagen, Denmark 28-31 May.

2012     

• On Potentials and Limits of Rights-Based Approaches to Development and the Future of Food Security. Presentation at the first Global Soil Week, Berlin, Germany, 18-22 November, 2012. Funded by IASS, Germany. Presented with Jes Weigelt.
• ‘Forest Tenure and People. The micro-politics of policy reforms and institutional choice. An illustration from tribal India. Seminar presentation at International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, 20-27 September, 2012. Funded by CIAT, Colombia.
• The Paradox of National Food Security draft Bill, 2011 for Tribal India’. Presented at the International Food Insecurity Workshop by the European Union Center (EUC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 10-14 June. Funded by the EUC, USA. Co-authored with Prof. Bernd van der Meulen.

2011     

• ‘Forest Tenure Reform, Citizenship and Conflicts: Outcomes Tribal India’s Forest Governance’. Workshop by the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU), Sigtuna, Sweden, 21-25 September. Funded by SLU, Sweden.
•  ‘Forest Rights of Forest People: a case study of Bhil tribal in India’. Lecture and documentary film presented at the Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 14 June. Funded by WUR, the Netherlands. 
• ‘Adaptation Policies: Implication for Forest People’s Rights in Semi-Arid India’. Presented at the Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through Social Sciences (ICARUS) program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 5-8 May. Funded by ICARUS, USA.
• ‘Identity Based Exclusion: Tribal Women’s Forest Tenure Rights in Rajasthan’. Presented in the CIFOR-IFRI panel at the 13th International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) conference, Hyderabad, India, 10-14 January. Funded by CIFOR, Indonesia.

2010     

• ‘Community-Based Adaptation of Bhil Tribal Women in Semi-arid India’. Presented in the ICARUS panel at the ICID+18’s second international conference, Fortaleza, Brazil, 16-20 August. Funded by ICARUS, USA.
• Paper 1. ‘Community-Based Adaptation of Bhil Tribal Women in Semi-arid India’, and Paper 2. Bose, P. ‘Decentralized Forest Management: Implications on Tribal Communities of Rajasthan in India’ in sessions 11.4 and 13.3 respectively at the 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference, Scotland, UK, 28 June-2 July. Funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, UK.
• ‘Forest People in REDD+ Forest Governance’. Presented at the REDD+ panel of the 8th Development Dialogue, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Hague, the Netherlands, 21-24 June. Funded by ISS, the Netherlands.  Co-authored with Bas Arts and Han van Dijk.

2009     

• ‘Collaborative Forest Governance Policy: Learning from Tribal India’. Presented at IDDRI and ENGREF organized Conference on Change in Forest Governance, Nancy, France, 21-24 July. Funded by LEB Stiching Fonds, the Netherlands. Co-authored with Bas Arts and Han van Dijk.
• Paper 1. ‘Assessing “Participation” in Joint Forest Management: Lessons from Tribal India’, and Paper 2. ‘Tribal Self-Governance and Common Pool Resource Management in India’ in panels 5A and 5D respectively at the 15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference (AISDRC), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 5-8 July. Funded by AISDRC, the Netherlands.
• ‘Decentralized Forest Tenure Rights of Tribal in Western India’. Presented at CERES summer school, Centre for International Development Issues, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2-3 July. Funded by Wageningen University.
• ‘Decentralized Forest Management: Policy Implications for Tribal Women’. Presented at the 2nd Gender and Forestry Conference, Umea. Sweden, 10-18 June. Funded by IUFRO and FAO.  
• 'Forest Governance and Tribal Rights in India: Towards Development Discourse.’ Presented at the 7th Development Dialogue Conference, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Hague, the Netherlands, 2-3 July. Funded by HIVOS.
• ‘Community-Based Adaptation of Tribal Women to Climate Change’. Presented at the 3rd Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Conference, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19-24 February. Funded by BCAS, Bangladesh and IIED, UK.

2008     

• ‘Forest Governance, Power and Livelihood’. Presented at the CERES Summer School, the Glind, 20-24 May. Funded by CERES, the Netherlands.
• ‘Institutional Arrangements and Forest Decentralization’. Presented at the Decentralization of Natural Resource Management Workshop, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 May. Funded by Danida.
• ‘Politics of Tribal Rights and Local Natural Resource Management’. Presented at the Indigenous People’s Right Forum Workshop, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland, 17-18 April. Funded by UoJ.
• ‘Land Reform for Marginal People’. Presented at the BioFach Sustainable Agriculture Meeting at Nuremburg, Germany, 5-8 March. Funded by BioFach.
• ‘Rights-Based Approach: Recognition of Forest People’. Presented at the UN South-South Human Rights Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-28 Feb. Funded by the UN.

2007     

• ‘Decentralized Forest Governance in Asia (India, Nepal, and Indonesia)’. Presented at the International Natural Resource Management Leadership seminar, Wageningen, 10 Oct. Funded by Wageningen International.

2006     

•  ‘Shift to Decentralization Impacts Common’. Presented at the 11th Forest and Land Tenure Conference, IASC, Bali, Indonesia, 20-23 June. Funded by CIFOR.

2005     

• Impact of Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests’. Presented at the Forest workshop in the Forestry Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, 10-12 June. Funded by DGIS, the Netherlands.
• ‘Biodiversity and Indigenous People: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Policies’. Presented at the GWU, Virginia, USA, May. Funded by DGIS, the Netherlands.
• ‘Forest Research Impact Assessment Methods’. Presented at Forest Institute Meeting on Forestry Programme, Vientiane, Laos, Jan. Funded by IUCN.
• ‘Knowledge and Participation in Community Forest Management in India’. Presented at the Forest Science Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam. Jan. Funded by DGIS.

1998-2004: various fellowships for presentations in Lai PDR, Sri Lanka, Germany, France, the Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and India. 

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