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The SAGE Impact Leaders will be both Indian and International students registered at participating institutes. For information on the Junior and Senior Ambassadors, please see: https://sites.google.com/echonetwork.in/sagereport2023/home. The PhD SAGE Fellows will be selected through National and International calls in early 2024. The projects will be supported for three years (a typical PhD fellowship period).
Host Institute: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Host Academic Supervisor: Rajkamal Goswami, Fellow in Residence (Faculty), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Co-Project Supervisors:
Kiril Manevski, Senior Advisor, Researcher, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University
Viren Lobo, Managing Trustee, Institute for Ecology and Livelihood Action (IELA)
Mahesh Sankaran, Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences
Y.D. Imran Khan, Senior Researcher and Thematic Lead - Ecology, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Saurabh Purohit, Senior Researcher - Ecology, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Advisors:
Asem Surindro Singh, Senior Research Assistant, Neurobiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
Prof. Rakesh Kumar Khandal, Independent Consultant
Shrutee Ganguly, Director - Net Zero & Sustainability, India, Turner & Townsend
Aim
Aim
To design new social-economic-ecological methodologies for ecosystem stewardship in rural communities through quantifying, building, and embracing social, human, and natural capital.
Key Objectives
Key Objectives
Baseline survey of the social, economic, and ecological factors required for promoting ecosystem stewardship in rural communities
Development of a standard methodology for biocultural diversity through stakeholder mapping
Establishment of an effective stewardship model through stakeholder engagement that addresses true-cost accounting calculation of conventional agricultural/rural livelihoods and ecologically-conscious strategies.
Assessment of incentivization opportunities for a financially viable, socially accepted, and locally owned institutional ecosystem to support local communities' ecosystem stewardship.
Key Outcomes
Key Outcomes
Stewardship Toolkit describing how to develop and implement an ecosystem stewardship strategy for rural livelihoods.
Defined criteria for mapping biocultural diversity in rural livelihoods.
Resources Needed
Resources Needed
Entry Participants
Entry Participants
Local communities
FPOs
Organisations working on the ground with rural communities
External input suppliers
Financial institutions
Local, State and National government institutions
Local religious and cultural institutions
Biodiversity Management Committees
Forest Rights Committees, in sites where they are present
Entry Resources
Entry Resources
Acquisition of relevant data and policies from the local/regional government offices - open source data for preliminary research of most effective regenerative practices
Local agricultural experts, ecologists, economists
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