Professor Andrea Pieroni is currently the Rector of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy that aims at creating a constant dialogue between Traditional Knowledge holders/local communities and the “scientific” arena, and implementing food sovereignty and sustainability. He is trained in medical botany at the University of Pisa. Prof. Andrea Pieroni earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in Germany. He has served as the Vice President and President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2008-2010). He is the founder and Chief Editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (ethnobiomed.com). He is a Honorary Member of the Academy of Science of Albania. He has conducted extensive research and published several papers on traditional foraging & folk perceptions, Food cultural heritage and its dynamics, Human ecology and biocultural diversity, cross-cultural and diachronic analyses of LEK (local environmental knowledge) systems; cultural adaptation processes.
In this talk he talks about his research on various aspects on Ethnobotany of Wild plants across Europe. The talk was attended by Hundreds of Students/Researchers across India and globally.

Dr. Maria Fadiman is a Professor of Geography at the Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA. She is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, a writer of academic articles and adventure essays. Her work is primarily in rural areas with indigenous people and subsistence agriculturalists. The majority of her research is in the rainforests of Latin America. She has also researched with with Mayan weavers in the Yucatan and studied medicinal plants with the Lacandon people in Chiapas, Mexico, explored alternative livelihoods in Africa for those who depend on tree poaching from the national parks in the savanna; explored house construction from natural materials in the Philippines; studied the Maori utilization of the Kauri tree in New Zealand; created an ethnobotanical booklet with the Ha tribe in Tanzania Africa; and looked at globalization in reference to the Omegot (Ngasech, First Born) ceremony on Palau, Micronesia. She has also been a TEDx speaker at TEDx Berkeley and TEDx Cancun

This event was a 2 day National Webinar Series organized by National Museum of Natural History(NMNH), New delhi
(ministry of environment, forest and climate change) THE UNIVERSITY OF TRANS-DISCIPLINARY HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY (TDU), BANGALORE
Conducted by:
Centre for conservation of natural resources(CCNR), tdu
REGIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY(RMNH), MYSURU

This is the day 2 of NATIONAL WEBINAR SERIES, CELEBRATION OF World Environment Day - 2021. June 6th 2021
The second focused on Ecological Restoration models and interaction with a local community person from Chhattisgarh

Lukasz Luczaj is an ethnobotanist who has spent his life travelling around the world documenting foraging practices, e.g. in Poland, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Georgia, China and Laos. Lukasz is an associate professor at the University of Rzeszow, Poland. In 2018 he was invited to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to deliver the annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture about his research on foraging. He has published nearly a hundred ethnobotanical articles and is also the author of a few books. He runs a foraging school in the Polish Carpathians. He also ‘travels in time’ by looking at the history of foraging – reaching for unknown descriptions of nineteenth-century rural life in Europe. In this talk he will talk about his research and his life as a forager. To know more about him click here http://www.thewildfood.org/ or you can also visit his you tube channel click here-you tube page to visit the channel.

Roskruge, Nicholas Rahiri is a Professor in Ethnobotany at the School of Agriculture & Environment, College of Sciences, Massey University. He has a degree in Horticultural Technology majoring in crop and soil systems and has completed a Ph.D. in Soil Science which developed a management model suited to Maori land. He is involved in a wide range of projects throughout the country related to Māori development. The most well known is the Taewa Maori project which involves iwi (tribe) and projects throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is also a Chairman of the National Maori Vegetable Growers Collective, Tahuri Whenua Inc. Soc. His research interests include Horticulture/vegetable production, Maori Resource Studies, Maori & Pacific Agribusiness, Ethnobotany. He has published many papers and is the author of many books in these fields. He has also lead many projects like 'Our Land and Water (OLW) Vision Matauranga Think Piece', 'Tracing the influence of cultivation on the whakapa of endemic NZ plants with molecular markers' etc. He also teaches at the University and has supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. students on various components of the Maori community. His other areas of expertise include Soil Sciences, Farm Management, Rural Management, Agribusiness and Environmental Sciences.

This is the first National Virtual Consultation on “Multi-faceted Citizens’ Portal on Medicinal Plants” organised to take the suggestions from citizens across India