الدكتور Sarada Prasad Mohapatra
Associate Professor in Botany & Environmental Sciences at Narasingh Choudhury Autonomous College, Jajpur, Odisha, India, UN Food System Hero, an Independent Dialogue Convener of UNFSS from India, full member of CFN(Committee on Food and Nutrition) of FAO, UN and a researcher of Climate Change, Agriculture, Gender equality, AI, Biodiversity, Mitigation of Marine Pollution, Bioremediation. An awardee of “Best Researcher in Botany” by IMRF, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand in 2019.
I am an Academician and Researcher working as Associate Prof and Head, Post Graduate Department of Botany and Environmental Science, Narasingh Choudhury Autonomous College, Jajpur, Odisha, India having 23 years of teaching and research experience, have published 36 articles, 10 books and 3 Patents till date. I am also acting as Executive Board Member of UN Accredited Organization CSAYN- climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network, also Member of Committee on World Food Security, FAO, UN and only Independent Dialogues Convener from India as Academia of UNFSS- United Nations Food System Summit, visited 9countries till date, received 27 Awards, Research Collaboration with scientists from 4 Countries, only Indian from Academia to attend WFC- World Forestry Congress at South Korea in 2022, under my supervision my Institution I.e Narasingh Choudhury Autonomous College Jajpur Odisha is the only institute from India is selected as a part of NPA- Nature Positive Alliance of UNEP and University of Oxford, UK in 2023.
الدكتور Sarada Prasad Mohapatra
In my opinion, the major barrier for the scientists and other knowledge holders across the Globe towards a sustainable agrifood system is "Patent". As most of the Inventions/Research/Technologies related to the field of Climate Change/Agriculture are patented, proper knowledge transfer and capacity building can't be fulfilled. I also strongly appeal for the Networking of all Scientists/Researchers/Agripreneurs/Traditional people on a common forum to be prepared by FAO, UN so that everyone(top to bottom) can get proper innovative knowledge and the main purpose of dissemination of talent will occur and it will definitely boost the agrifood system in a positive way.
Another point I would like to highlight here is to include the Student Scientists across the Globe who have innovative ideas through a network to be developed by FAO, UN so that we can strengthen our young generations with full of knowledge and they can also be a part of this agrifood system and can share their contributions for sustainable future.
Thanks
Dr. Sarada Prasad Mohapatra
Associate Prof in Botany & Environmental Science
Narasingh Choudhury Autonomous College, Jajpur, Odisha, India
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