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Pranab is a practicing researcher and consultant in the areas of natural resources management and governance with about two decades of experience. He has worked on inter-disciplinary issues around forest, land, water and livelihoods in most states of India and also in Nepal, Bangladesh and Thailand. A post-graduate in Forestry, Pranab has earlier worked as a Scientist with Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) for about 8 years. Since last decade, he has been working with communities, NGOs, Donors, Research Institutions, Government and International Organizations in South Asia, in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Rural and Tribal Development interventions and programs.
He has coordinated implementation of LGAF for World Bank in India and has carried out studies on women land rights, forest rights and land governance with international agencies. His present works and interests include community-based/ participatory GIS mapping, customary tenures, community rights, women land rights and responsible investments. He has founded and coordinates NRMC Center for land Governance (http://nrmc.co/index.php/what-we-do/centerforlandgovernance) a think tank attempting inclusive and informed dialogue around land governance in India for shared prosperity. Apart from conducting research and piloting innovative actions, CLG also organizes Annual India Land and development Conference (https://centerforland.org/ildc-2020/), a first of kind initiative to bring together land actors across states and sectors to have inclusive conversation. CLG as a partner of Land Portal Foundation in India, promote open access to land information.
Pranab is actively associated with many professional and civil society networks, and Universities and has widely travelled. He has published /presented more than 60 papers/ abstracts in peer reviewed Journals and International & National Conferences and authored 3 books (htt https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pranab_Choudhury2). He is a recipient of Vasant Rao Naik Award for Research Application in Agriculture in 2002 hosted by ICAR. He is also a Non-Government Expert (Forestry) in the National Executive Council of Green India Mission, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.
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ILDC22022 : GLOBAL PULLS ON LOCAL LANDS - SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES
Sixth edition of ILDC is being organized in hybrid mode during 7-9 December, 2022 with theme “Global Pulls on Local Lands : Southern Perspectives” at Bengaluru, India. The objective of this year's conference is to further and expand the scope of South-South Exchange around land conversations and cooperations, that began during the last episode, while the focus of the deliberations will continue to be on India.
Week-long Residential workshop on “Land Governance and Development” in Bengaluru, India
Date: - 5 - 10 December 2022
Theme: - Land Governance and Development
Venue: - Azim Premji University Campus, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Haque for People’s Haq over Land: A Farmers’ Economist Journey for Inclusive Land Rights
In Dr. Tajamul Haque’s untimely demise on 2nd May, India has lost a scholar policy maker, a champion of the causes of farmers, tribal, an advocate of land rights for women and dalits and a messiah for marginal farmers and tenants. With his departure, farmers lost a tireless, fearless advocate at the echelon of power corridors, while for ministers and secretaries, gone now is a highly knowledgeable yet an unassuming pragmatic advisor.
India’s SVAMITVA scheme: a public value perspective directs attention to inclusive innovation for rural property formalisation
Last month, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, issued the first 0.1 million Rural Property Cards (RPCs) to communities across more than 763 villages in six states in rural India under the SVAMITVA scheme.
Informality of land and labour poise to expand COVID Toll: Securing Land Tenure, also critical to secure Nutrition
Covid-19 pandemic has further worsened India’s hunger and malnutrition woes, more so for the millions of informal workers, now struggling to meet two ends in their rural homes, post the mass migration from their place of works, during lockdowns. Their embedded informality over labour, land, housing tenure, has uprooted and shaken them with loss of income, occupation and habitat, multiplying their already entrenched nutrition vulnerability.
The Road to the India Land and Development Conference 2020: An Interview with Pranab Choudhury
The 4th India Land and Development Conference, set to start next week, invites a wide variety of individuals and institutions to engage in thought-provoking and interdisciplinary conversations and analyses. More specifically, the Conference's theme Institutions, Innovations and Informations in Land Governance invites us all to think about the role that information sharing can play in helping to ensure effective land governance.
Conservation & Development, both suffer when land tenure is not secure: India Land Conference
Conservation, said Aldo Leopold, is harmony between (wo)men and land. Land should justifiably figure not only into the conservation, but also in development debates, policy and discourses. Missing land rights and land tenure security can be costly for states, communities as well as local and global development.