SEMINAR/ WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

·       Attended the VII^th  World Bamboo Congress held from 27^th February -4^th March 2004, in New Delhi, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “ Managing Agrobiodiversity: A case study of smallholder rice farmers in Barak Valley, Assam” in the International Symposium on Recent Trends in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity Research held from 20^th-22^nd May 2004, in Shillong, India

·       Attended the 2^nd International North East Bamboo Festival held from 2^nd -5^th May 2005, in Shillong, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the management of Agrobiodiversity: A case study of homegardens in Barak Valley, Assam” in the Regional Workshop on Traditional Knowledge Based Biodiversity Conservation Practices in North-East India held from 23^rd-24^th March 2006, in NEHU, Shillong, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Traditional management of plant diversity in homegardens: A case study in Barak Valley, Assam” in the National Annual Conference on Environmental Education held from 6^th-8^th July 2006, in Bangalore, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Management and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in traditional homegardens: A case study in Barak Valley, Assam” in the National Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation: The Post-Rio Scenario in India held from 19^th -21^st April 2006, in AUS, Silchar, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “ Analyzing homegardens as a component of village landscape and local livelihoods: A case study in Barak Valley, Assam” in the JNU-UNU-NIRD Collaborative International Synthesis Workshop on Shifting Agriculture, Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Marginal Mountain Environment held from 23^rd-25^th September 2006, in Guwahati, Assam, India

·       Attended the International Tropical Ecology Congress held from 2-5 December 2007, in Dehradun, India.

·       Presented a paper entitled “Traditional seed flow and Farmer’s seed bank: A strategy for conservation of rice germplasm by the farmers in Dargakona village, Barak Valley, Assam” in the National Conference on Recent trends in Biodiversity Researches  held from 16-18 March 2009, in Assam University, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Tree based land use practice as an initiative to biodiversity conservation: A case study from the home gardens of Barak Valley, northeast India” in the National Seminar on Climate Change and Sustainable Development with reference to India held from 1^st-3^rd April 2010, in Tezpur University, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Plant Biodiversity Management & Conservation initiatives by rural people ” in the First Indian Biodiversity Congress- IBC 2010 held from 28-30 December 2010, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Mapping of homegardens as a component of trees outside forests in the rural landscapes of Cachar and Hailakaindi districts of Barak Valley, Assam using Remote Sensing and GIS” in the International Conference on Global Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability in the 21^st Century held from 15-17 February 2012, in Assam University, India

·       Poster presentation of paper entitled “Spatial distribution analysis of homegardens in rural landscapes of Barak Valley, Assam, northeast India using RS & GIS” in the World Congress on Agoroforestry held from 10-14 February 2014 in Delhi, India

·       Presented a paper entitled “Mapping and floristic survey of traditional homegardens in the rural landscapes of Barak Valley, Assam using remote sensing and field methods” in the Tropical Ecology Congress held from 10-12 December  2014, in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

·  Presented a paper entitled “Ecology of the forest gardens- ‘an intermediate land-use systems’, in the rural regions of Barak Valley, Southern Assam, northeast India” in the National Seminar on Charting and Managing Biodiversity: Perceptions and Priorities (CMBPP-2016) held from 8-9 March 2016, in Assam University, India