Awards

• FIU Faculty Award 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 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
• FIU Presidential Excellence Award (Finalist), 2013
• FIU Presidential Excellence Award (Finalist), 2011
• FIUFaculty Award 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 USDA People’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