أستاذ دكتور P.C. Abhilash
P.C. Abhilash is currently affiliated as a Senior Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science in the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and Chair of the Agroecosystem Specialist Group of Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), IUCN. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India. His current research interest focus climate resilient agriculture; adaptive land managment; nature based solutions; traditional ecological knowledge and ecosystem based approaches for managing agrobiodiversity for food and nutritional security; pesticide pollution; nanoparticles in soil system; harnessing plant-microbe interactions as a low-input biotechnology for the bioremediation of marginal lands/polluted agro-ecosystems/degraded lands for multipurpose benefits (i.e. soil carbon sequestration, biomass/biofuel production etc.). He is also interested in framing suitable policy for sustainable agriculture, land degradation and restoration and biomass/biofuel production for supporting a bio-based economy. Prof. Abhilash is also sitting on the board of Editors of international journals such as Sustainable Earth (BMC-Springer); Agronomy (MDPI); Land Degradation & Development (Wiley); Energy, Ecology & Environment (Springer), Restoration Ecology (Wiley); Biomass & Bioenergy (Elsevier); Biodegradation (Springer); Tropical Ecology (ISTE) and Environmental Management (Springer). He is also serving as a Task Force Member of IUCN Oil Palm Cultivation & Biodiversity and an Expert Member of International Resource Panel (IRP) of UNEP; UNDP-BES; European Science Foundation; Czech Academy of Sciences; UNFCCD; DIWAPA; APN; IPCC and IPBES. He was involved as a Lead Author (LA) of the 'PBES Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services' and Global Assessment on 'Land Degradation and Restoration' and currenly involved as a Lead Author of IRP-UNEP policy brief on ' Sustainable Land Restoration for Attaining Zero Hunger (SDGs-2)'.
أستاذ دكتور P.C. Abhilash
Exploration and sustainable utilization of agrobiodiversity is essential for the dietary diversification and sustainable agriculture. Especially, the utilization of neglected and underutilized crops offers huge promise in fulfilling the food and nutritional requirement of the resource-poor peoples in developing world as the traditional or local varieties have better climate tolerance and adaption potential than the modern crop varieties. Moreover, they are rich in essential nutrients and can be considered as promising crops for dietary diversification (Singh et al., 2018)
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