Professor of Natural Resource Economics & Co-Director of Agroecology Program at FIU
Awards
FIU FacultyAward for Excellence in Research, 2020
Fulbright Specialist in Natural Resource Economics, 2020 – 2023
US Society for Ecological Economics Bernardo Aguilar Award, 2019
North America Peace Run Torch Bearer Award for contribution to Agroecology, 2018
FIU CASE MS Env Policy & Manage. Program Faculty of the Year, 2018
FIU CASE PSM-EPM Program Best Course Award, 2016 & 2019
FIU School of Intl & Public Affairs Best Course Award, 2018
FIU CASE Award for Research, 2017
FIU Presidential Excellence Award, 2016
FIU CASE Award for Engagement, 2016
FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Engagement, 2016
FIU CASE MS in Env Policy & Manage. Program Faculty of the Year, 2015
FIU Top Scholar Award, 2015
FIU FacultyAward for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
FIU Presidential Excellence Award (Finalist), 2013
FIU Presidential Excellence Award (Finalist), 2011
FIUFacultyAward for Excellence in Service, 2010
Certificate of Appreciation by Mayor, Miami-Dade County for serving on the South Dade Watershed Plan Technical Review Committee, 2006
Co-founder of the FIU Organic Garden, which received the USDAPeople’s Garden designation, April 2010
Founding Co-Director, Agroecology Program (2005) at Florida International University under the grant from the US Department of Agriculture of over $10 million (www.agroecology.fiu.edu)
Founding Co-Director, Human Dimensions of the South Florida Environment Group, Florida International University, 1999
Berg Fellow of Soil and Water Conservation Society (nominated as one of fifteen scientists from US and Canada for participating at the Society’s first international Conservation Policy Forum, August 1992
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1990
Gama Sigma Delta Honor Society, 1989
Karnataka State Government’s State Award for the first rank in M.Sc., 1984
Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Prize for an outstanding university student, 1981
BS and MS first rank gold medals, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1981 and 1983