Mr Prasant Mohanty is a founding member of a grassroots NGO  Nirman (www.nirmanodisha.org),  in Odisha, India and currently serving as Executive Director.   He has worked on issues on Land and Forest Tenure, Community Forestry, Ecological Farming and Sustainable livelihoods with about two decades of experience. He has demonstrated expertise in designing programs strategies and had a dynamic role in influencing and advocating right’s based concerns in the areas of land and forest tenure, forest governance, ecological farming, Millets based bio-diverse farming system and small fishery. 

He is associated with various networks within India and abroad. His academic portfolio includes MA in Development Planning & Administration. He has represented Civil Society from India and participated in international conference like IASC-2009, in Chetanham, IASC- 2012, Hyderabad, India, ,IASC-2017, Utrecht, The Netherland, ISSRM in Viena Austria, and presented issues and learning relating to Land & Forest Tenure, Community Forestry and Forest governance. His contributions in the field of land and forest tenure community forestry, millets based faming and conservation of local seed system and livelihood security is widely acknowledged.