Dr. R. Siddappa Setty

Outreach Coordinator


Dr. R. Siddappa Setty (hat with spectacles) and Soliga tribe

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Education

  • Ph.D., 2004, Sustainable harvest of forest resource (NTFPs) in India, University of Mysore, India.
  • Master Degree, 1994, Botany, University of Bangalore, India.
  • Bachelor Degree, 1992, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, University of Bangalore, India.
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Research Interests

  • Sustainable management of forest resource and value addition.
  • Poverty alleviation in biodiversity rich areas through sustainable use.
  • Sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
  • Involving community in conservation and strengthening traditional institutions.
  • Restoration and environmental education.
  • Bringing scientific knowledge to the community on sustainable development.

Achievements:

  • Involved in linking science and practice for sustainable development from past 12 years.
  • Preparation of 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 7000 tribes.
  • Developed methodology for Participatory Resource Monitoring (PRM) technique.
  • Long term monitoring of forest resource.
  • Assisted tribes on sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
  • Restoration of economically important plants, environmental education for school children and strengthening traditional institutions.
  • Sustainable micro credits through women self help groups.
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Experience

  • 2002 to till date: Outreach Co-ordinator, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) India
  • 1998 to 2001: Research Associate, ATREE
  • 1994 to 1997: Research Assistant, Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) 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.

Project completed:

  • Integrated approach to conservation of Bio-diversity, with special reference to Non Wood Forest Products (NWFP) at B R 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, an 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 Biligiri Rangan Hills Wild life Sanctuary (Supported from Ford foundation New Delhi), 1998.
  • Integrated approach towards conservation of Biligiri Ranghan Hills wild life sanctuary (Supported from Ford foundation), 1999-01.
  • 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.

Project on going:

  • Promote the use of sustainable agro-forestry systems to conserve soil, increase on-farm diversity and income (Supported by Dorabji Tata Trust), 2005 -07.
  • Enhancing Livelihoods of Marginal Forest Communities in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu by Promoting the Utilization of Lantana as a Substitute for Bamboo 2004-07, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi.
  • Conservation and livelihood programme attempting to evolve a sustainable and democratic model of conservation. Funded by Sri Dorabji Tata Trust, 2005-07.
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Affiliations / Positions / Memberships

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Grants / Awards / Honors

  • Local Alternatives for Temple Offerings in South India - MM Hills and Biligiri Rangan Temple Hills (Supported by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi), 2006. Working as principal investigator.
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Select Publications

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Complete Publications

  1. Murali. K. S., R. Siddappa Setty, K. N. Ganeshaiah, and R. Uma Shaaker., 1998. Does forest type classification reflects spatial dynamics of vegetation? An analysis using GIS techniques. Current Science 75: 220-227.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Siddappa Setty. R., 2002. Manuals on Sustainable harvest of Non-timber forest products for the community people.
  5. 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.
  6. Siddappa Setty. R., K. S. Murali, Bushan., 1997. Biodiversity Register Book for the Biligirirangan Hills Wild Life Sanctuary.
  7. Siddappa Setty. R., K. S. Bawa and J. Bommaiah., 2001. Participatory resource monitoring for non-timber forest products in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary, Karnataka, India. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystem: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare, Bangalore.
  8. Siddappa Setty. R., K. S. Bawa and C. Madegowda., 2003. Conservation of non-timber forest products with community participation in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary, Karnataka India. Proceedings of Policies, Management, Utilization and Conservation of Non-timber Forest Products in South Asia Region Bangalore.
  9. Kamaljit S. Bawa, Gladwin Joseph, Siddappa Setty. R,. Poverty, Biodiversity and Institutions in Forest-Agriculture Ecotones in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalaya Ranges of India (Manuscript).
  10. Siddappa Setty. R., Kamal Bawa, Tamara Ticktin, C. Madegowda and R. Ganesan. Results and evaluation of a participatory monitoring system for NTFP: the case of amla fruit harvest by tribal peoples in South India (Manuscript).
  11. Siddappa Setty, 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).
  12. Jagdish Krishnaswamy, M.C Kiran, Ankila Hiremath and R. Siddappa Setty. Fuzzy fire mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-date NDVI (Manuscript).
  13. Edited book: Learning for Life: Nature as Our Teacher, Environmental Handbook for Educators on Biligirirangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka by Sujatha Padmanabhan, Sunita Rao 2005.
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Meetings / Conferences / Symposiums / Workshops

  • Participated in three days workshop on Participatory Resource Mapping technique held at Biligirirangaswamy 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 Biligirirangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary, Avalanche Series Symposium held at Kaivara, Kolar (District) India 1997.
  • Extraction of rock bee honey by Soliga tribes in B. R. Hills, paper presented at National Conference on Apiculture, First Karnataka Honey Festival at Bangalore 1997.
  • Participatory Resource Monitoring on Embilica officinalis and rock bee by Soliga tribes at B.R.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 B R 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 B R 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 Trivanddrum, 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 Biligirirangan Hills wildlife sanctuary.
  • Biodiversity conservation with special reference to Non timber forest products of Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary in India, At university of Hawaii at Honolulu USA. September 2005.
  • Participatory Resource Monitoring in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary, at Pondicherri. 28th to 30th November 2005 at 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, during 3-5th February, 2006.
  • Workshop on Resins and Gums (Policy, Management and Trade in India) at Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh during 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

Courses attended:

  • Training on statistical applications in forest research at Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi during 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 during January 31- February 4, 2005.
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Others

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Contact

Email:
siddappa@atree.org,
siddssetts@yahoo.com

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