Biography:
Jagruti Y Rathod currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Navrachana University, Vadodara, Gujarat. An Ecologist and internationally recognized Certified Restoration Practitioner who careered her passion for conservation, management and restoration of the ecosystem. After completing a doctorate degree in Zoology. She is also the founder Indian company, NCR, Nature Conservancy & Restoration which works for conservation, management, and restoration and deals with organic farmers. She also works for an international organization, SER (Society Ecological Restoration) as a judging panel, goals and governing council, and moderator for webinars. She works on different projects like the conservation of the Houbara bustard, the avifaunal diversity of coastal areas of Gujarat, and also tries to restore the barren land of one of the villages of Vadodara district. She has more than 15 years of research experience in the diversity of different ecosystems (forest, wetland, desert, grassland, river). She conducts training, workshop, internship program for different stakeholders like students, business people, industrialists, scientists, and restoration practitioners.
Title : Traditional ecological knowledge of farmers, Gujarat, India