Dr. R. Siddappa Setty

Fellow

Postal address:

Dr. Siddappa Setty
ATREE
Royal Enclave, Sriramapura,
Jakkur Post, Bangalore-560064
Ph. No: 91-80-23635555, Cell No: 9980299595
Fax: 91-80-23530070
Email: siddappa@atree.org and siddssetts@yahoo.com

Research interests:

Sustainable management of forest resources and value addition.
Poverty alleviation in biodiversity rich areas through sustainable use.
Sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
Community conservation and strengthening traditional institutions.
Environmental education and restoration.
Bringing scientific knowledge and approaches with traditional knowledge.

Achievements:

Since 15 years, bridging science and practice for a sustainable development.
Prepared a resource map for 540 sq km forest in Western Ghats, India.
Sustainable harvest of Non-timber forest Products (NTFPs) and value addition.
Awareness and training on sustainable resource harvest for around 7000 Soliga tribes.
Developed a methodology for Participatory Resource Monitoring (PRM) technique.
Long term monitoring of forest resource.
Assisted tribes on sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
Involved in environmental education for school children.
Restoration of economically important plants and strengthening traditional institutions.

Awards:

Received Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Fellowship 2009; to visit Oregon State University USA for four months in 2009
Received fellowship from WWF Malaysia to attend courses on Ethnobotany in Malaysia and Philippines in 1996.

Experience:

Date	Position	Institute	Total experience
Nov 1994 to Dec 1997	Research Assistant	Teri	3 years 2 months
Jan 1998 to Dec 1999	Research Associate	ATREE	2 years
29th Dec 1999 to 2nd June 2004	Ph.D. and Outreach coordinator	Mysore university and ATREE	4 years 6 months
July 2004 to March 2009	Post doc and Outreach coordinator	ATREE	5 years
April 2009	Fellow	ATREE	Till date

Educational qualification :

Degree	Year	Subject	University
Ph.D.	2004	Ecology and Productivity Studies on some Non-timber Forest Products of Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary	University of Mysore, India
Masters	1994	Botany	University of Bangalore, India
Bachelors	1992	Chemistry, Botany and Zoology	National College, Bangalore, India

Course and experience from abroad:

Quantitative Methods of Applied Ethnobotany, 15th - 26th Sep 1997, Malaysia.
Qualitative Methods of Applied Ethnobotany, 16th - 28th Feb 1998, Philippines.
Ethnobotany and Returning result to the communities, 22nd - 27th Jun 1998, Malaysia.
Geographic Information System (G I S), 8th - 15th Feb 1998, Philippines.
Systematic Classification of Plants, 15th - 21st June 1998, Malaysia.
Developing Project Proposals/ Professional Writing/ Reporting, 10th - 17th Nov 2003, Kasetsart University, Thailand.
Collaborative research on sustainable harvest of forest resource, Sept and Oct 2005, University of Hawaii, USA.
Co-management of Biodiversity: Traditional Knowledge and Forest Right of the Soligas in South India, presented work at an International Conference on Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge held in Kunming, China, 17th to 20th December 2007.
Visited to present work in American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA in First week of April 2009.
Made a presentation at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry 23rd to the 28th of August 2009, Nairobi, Kenya on enhancing diversity of trees on farms proximal to a wildlife sanctuary: 'Lessons from working with small farmers'.
Gave a talk on 'Invasive plants in tropical human dominated landscapes: need for a paradigm shift in their management' at DIVERSITAS International conference at Cape Town, South Africa, 13 - 19 October 2009.
Gave presentation on 'Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation in India', 'Agroforestry and livelihood of Soliga tribes in India', 'Invasive species as resource opportunity', 'Rock bee monitoring and honey harvest in a tropical forest', 'Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood in India', 'Conservation policies in India and their impact on livelihood of Soliga tribes' at Oregon State University, Kansas University and American Museum of Natural History at New York. September to December, 2009.

Courses attended:

Training on statistical applications in forest research at Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi (6th to 10th of May 2002).
Training on management development programme on sustainable livelihoods, community organizations and income generation activities conducted by the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (Jan 31 to Feb 4, 2005).
Training on Social science for natural scientists conducted by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Bangalore (June 8 to 13, 2009).

Project completed:

Integrated approach to conservation of Bio-diversity, with special reference to Non Wood Forest Products (NWFP) at BR Hills Wild life Sanctuary, a planning grant from Biodiversity Conservation Network, 1994.
Integrated approach to conservation of Bio-diversity, with special reference to Non Wood Forest Products (NWFP) at B R Hills Wild life Sanctuary (Implementation grant from Biodiversity Conservation Network), 1995-97.
Conservation of Non Wood Forest Products (NWFP) with involvement of community people using Participatory Resource Monitoring technique at Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (supported from Ford foundation), 1998.
Integrated approach towards conservation of Biligiriranga Swamy Hills Wild Life Sanctuary (supported from Ford foundation), 1999-2001.
Integrating conservation, livelihoods and awareness: A comprehensive Natural Resource Management program in the Western Ghats. (supported by Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi), 2002-04.
Managing and Conserving Biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India. (funded by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai), 2001-04.
Diversification and substitution of resource use: Approaches to enhance livelihoods and conserve biological diversity, (funded by Development Market Place, World Bank, Washington D.C.), 2003-04.
Promote the use of sustainable agro-forestry systems to conserve soil, increase on-farm diversity and income (supported by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, New Delhi), 2005 -07.
Enhancing Livelihoods of Marginal Forest Communities in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu by Promoting the Utilization of Lantana as a Substitute for Bamboo, (supported by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi, (2004-07).
Conservation and livelihood programme attempting to evolve a sustainable and democratic model of conservation. (funded by Sri Dorabji Tata Trust), 2005-07.

Principal investigator:

Local Alternatives for Temple Offerings in South India - MM Hills and BR Hills, (supported by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi), 2006.
'Local alternatives for Temple offerings in South India- MM Hills and Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagamalai and Allagarkoil at Madhurai' (supported by Department of Bio-technology), 2007 to 2010.
Community Based Afforestation at Lokkere forest near Bandipur supported by GE with collaboration of Junglecapes Bangalore 2010-11.
Coordinating project on consultancy mode: Apis dorsata (rock bee) monitoring and improved methods of honey harvest in Nagaland through Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) funded by Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, Bombay 2009 to 2010.

Others:

Recognized Ph.D. guide, Manipal University. http://www.manipal.edu

Publications:

Murali. K.S., R. Siddappa Setty, K.N. Ganeshaiah and R. Uma Shaanker. 1998. Does forest type classification reflect spatial dynamics of vegetation? An analysis using GIS techniques. Current Science 75: 220-227.

Murali. K. S. and Siddappa Setty. R. 2001. Effect of weeds Lantana camara and Chromelina odarata growth on the species diversity, regeneration and stem density of tree and shrub layer in BRT Sanctuary. Current Science 80(5): 675-678.

Ganesan. R. and R. Siddappa Setty. 2004. Regeneration of Amla, an important Non-timber Forest Product from Southern India. Conservation and Society 2, 2. Page number 365-375.

Siddappa Setty, R., 2002. Manuals on Sustainable harvest of Non-timber forest products (Gooseberry, Honey, Soapnut, Soapberry and Lichen) for the community and researchers.

Siddappa Setty. R., K.S. Murali and K.S. Bawa. 1996. Extraction of Honey from rock bee (Apis dorsata) by Soligas Tribes in B.R.Hills, Mysore District. Proceedings of Honey Festival in India.

Siddappa Setty, R., K.S. Murali, Bushan. 1997. Biodiversity Register Book for the Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary.

Siddappa Setty, R., K.S. Bawa and J. Bommaiah., 2001. Participatory resource monitoring for non-timber forest products in Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, India. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystem: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare, Bangalore.

Siddappa Setty, R., K.S. Bawa and C. Madegowda., 2003. Conservation of non-timber forest products with community participation in Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka India. Proceedings of Policies, Management, Utilization and Conservation of Non-timber Forest Products in South Asia Region Bangalore.

Siddappa Setty, R. and Sushmita Mandal. November 2007. 'A Case Study on ATREE's Experiences in Participatory Resource Monitoring' published in Journal of Community Forestry in Ecology section. Page 29-35.

Siddappa Setty, R. and Sushmita Mandal, 2007. ' Tribal Development and Conservation in a Wildlife Sanctuary' by published in book of Gender and Social Inclusion for Sustainable Livelihoods, Page 7-17.

Bawa, Kamaljit S., Gladwin Joseph, Siddappa Setty R. 2007. Poverty, biodiversity and institutions in forest-agriculture ecotones in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalaya ranges of India, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 121 (2007) 287-295.

Siddappa Setty, R., Kamal Bawa, Tamara Ticktin, and C. Made Gowda. 2008. Evaluation of a Participatory Resource Monitoring System for Nontimber Forest Products: the Case of Amla (Phyllanthus spp.) Fruit Harvest by Soligas in South India. Ecology and Society 13(2): 19. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/ iss2/art19

Siddappa Setty, R., Nitin Rai and Kamal Bawa. Characteristics of Honey Resources in a Tropical Forest: Productivity and Extraction in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern India (Manuscript).

Jagdish Krishnaswamy, M.C. Kiran, Ankila Hiremath and R. Siddappa Setty. Fuzzy fire mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-date NDVI (Manuscript).

Edited book: 'Learning for Life: Nature as Our Teacher, Environmental Handbook for Educators on Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka' by Sujatha Padmanabhan, Sunita Rao 2005.

Kamaljit S. Bawa, Siddappa Setty and Sharachandra Lele, Enterprise Based Approach to Conservation: A Ten Year Experiment in Biligiri Rangawsamy Temple (BRT) Wildlife Sanctuary, India (Manuscript).

Jackson, Pulleman, Brussaard, Bawa, Brown, Cardoso, de Ruiter, García-Barrios, Ouedragogo, Pascual, Setty, Smukler, Tscharntke and Van Noordwijk Agrobiodiversity and sustainable intensification of agriculture: Exploring the potential for innovation at benchmark sites in different biomes (Manuscript).

Meetings / Conferences / Symposiums / Workshops:

Participated in three days workshop on Participatory Resource Mapping technique held at Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary organized by Tata Energy Research Institute, Bangalore 1996.

Salim Ali Centenary Symposium; Western Ghates Bio-diversity and Discussion meeting held at India Institute of Science, Bangalore 1996.

Conservation and Sustainable use of rock bee (Apis dorsata) honey by Soligas tribes in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Avalanche Series Symposium held at Kaivara, Kolar (District) India 1997.

Extraction of rock bee honey by Soliga tribes in BR Hills, paper presented at National Conference on Apiculture, First Karnataka Honey Festival at Bangalore 1997.

Participatory Resource Monitoring on Phyllanthus emblica and rock bee by Soliga tribes at BR Hills Wild Life Sanctuary, at Certificatory Training Course in Applied Ethnobotany, Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysia 1998.

Participatory approaches case study; as resource person in Certificatory Training Course on Biodiversity Conservation Project and Participatory resource monitoring by Soliga Tribes at BR Hills, at Kinabalu Park at Malaysia 1998.

III Congress of IUSSI-India Chapter March 1998 Diversity of Social Insects and other Athropods and the functioning of Ecosystem at college of Horticulture. Mudigere (Western ghats) 1998.

'Participatory Resource Monitoring By Soliga Tribes at BR Hills. Karnataka' was made at the session on: The Barefoot Scientist' at International conference: 6th World Wilderness Congress, The call for the sustainable future. 24th - 29th October 1998, Bangalore, India at Ashoka Hotel.

Participatory resource monitoring for NTFPs in BRT Wild life Sanctuary, Karnataka presented in the National conference on Sustainable management of NTFPs in Trivandrum, Kerala, held on 25th May 2000.

International conference on Indigenous Indic Traditions in forestry: Lessons for contemporary Sustainable forest Management, 8-10 February 2001. In forest management presented paper on Participatory Resource monitoring in BRT Wild life Sanctuary Bhopal.

2nd National Conference of the Western Ghats Forum Integrating Science and Management of Biodiversity in the Western Ghats at State Forest Service College, Coimbatore 1-2 December 2005. Oral presentation on Participatory resource monitoring in Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary.

Biodiversity conservation with special reference to Non timber forest products of Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary in India, at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu USA. September 2005.

Participatory Resource Monitoring in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, at Pondicherry. 28th to 30th November 2005 at a workshop on conservation of Non-timber forest products. Organized by Key stone.

Characteristics of Honey Resources in a Tropical Forest: Productivity and Long term monitoring of bee colonies in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern India. Siddappa Setty, Nitin Rai and Kamal Bawa at ARCS 2006, annual research and conservation seminar.

Results and evaluation of a participatory monitoring system for NTFP: the case of Amla fruit harvest by tribal peoples in South India, R. Siddappa Setty, C. Madegowda, R. Ganesan, Kamal Bawa and Tamara Ticktin. Workshop organized by FRLHT, Bangalore. February 2006.

Third Regional Practitioners Workshop-Southern Karnataka on 'Livestock-Livelihoods-Environment: Sharing of Experiences' organised by LEAD Advocacy Network-Karnataka (LAN-K) - SAMUHA, at Hotel Airlines, Mysore, from 3-5th February, 2006.

Workshop on Resins and Gums (Policy, Management and Trade in India) at Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh from 11-13 April 2006. Organized by Greetings from RCDC Centre for Forestry and Governance, Bhubaneswar. Venue- Hotel Jungle Bells, Tyda, Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Participated and helped to conduct 'Consultation Workshop on National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) for Biodiversity Conservation in North East India' - organised by ATREE, under the aegis of the MoEF, GoI and with the support of UNDP, on the 26th of August 2006 at Shillong, Meghalaya.

'Co-management of Biodiversity: Traditional Knowledge and Forest Right of the Soligas in South India', attended by Sidhartha Krishnan, C. Madegowda, Sushmita Mandal, Siddappa Setty and Nitin Rai. Presented by Sidhartha Krishnan in an International Conference on Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge held in Kunming, China 17th to 20th December 2007.

Organised one day workshops in both MM Hills and BRT Hills field sites on antiplastic campaign and spoke about strategies to control plastics in the forest and temple areas.

Gave two days training to the organization called ECONET at Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary on ecological monitoring of Terminalia chebula. July 2009.

Gave two days training to the Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) in Kohima, Nagaland on Rock bee monitoring and harvest. August 2009.

Attended an 'International Conference on Biodiversity in relation to food and human security in a warming planet', at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India, 15 to 17 February, 2010.

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment