Have been requested to carry out a performance review of Commonwealth Knowledge Network of Commonwealth Science Council, UK
Have organised sessions/workshops on indigenous innovation and intellectual property rights in various national and international conferences of natural science societies dealing with Crop Science, Agronomy, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, range management, soil and water conservation, etc.
Have been invited as keynote speaker in scores of international conferences from 1981 to till date, too many to be enumerated but including IAUES anthropological conference, rural sociology, farming systems, common property resource management, IAAE agricultural economics, AIPPI on IPRs, OECD on biodiversity, Range management, ICLARM on aquatic diversity, IFAD and EU on hunger and poverty, Universi¬ties of Arizona, Upsala, Hohenhiem, Boston, Aarhus, Mexico, TWAS, Trieste, in addition universities of Harvard, Duke, Cornell, Indiana, Oxford, etc., have invited for seminars, meetings and presentations.
Participated in the International Conference on Biodiversity in Paris during 27-28 Jan, 2005; the international conference on "Can knowledge be made just?" in Essen, Germany during 21 - 23 March 2005; Meeting of the Advisory Group for the Consortium on S&T for Sustainable Development in Paris from Jan 24-26, 2004; International Workshop on Innovations in the Biosciences in Columbia University, New York during 20 - 21 May, 2004 workshop on Ethics, Globalisation and Hunger: In Search of Appropriate Policies organised by Cornell University in Ithaca during Nov. 17-19, 2004; International Conference on Social Technology during 19 - 20 Nov., 2004 in Sao Paulo; delivered keynote address at the workshop on Innovations in Technology and Government held at the Kennedy School of Government on October 30-31,2003; participated in the International Workshop on Property Rights Collective Action and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources, September 29-October 2, 2003 in Rome, jointly organised by IFPRI, CAPRI and IPGRI; Regional Stakeholders' Workshop on the Thematic Evaluation of Local Knowledge and innovations in the Asia Region in Bangkok on 23 July 2003; Planning Group for the Consortium on S & T for Sustainable Development in Paris during 24-26 July 2003; high level forum on science, technology and innovation in the Commonwealth: Challenges and Opportunities in Johannesburg during 10-11 June 2003; ICT Development Forum during May 20-21, 2003 in Bonn, Germany; International Conference on Biotechnology and Biodiversity in St.Louis during April 4-6, 2003; Expert Workshop on Traditional Knowledge organised by Commission on IPR at Commonwealth Science Council in London (Jan 2002); Taskforce on Technology, Innovation and Society organised by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Feb 2002; International Workshop on Science, Technology and Sustainability: Harnessing Institutional Synergies in Trieste (Feb 2002); Conference on International Patent System in Geneva organised by WIPO (March 2002); Workshop on S&T for Sustainable Development, organised by Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, International Council for Science and the Third World Academy of Sciences (May 2002); Workshop on Democracy and Global Governance: Challenges for the XXI Century in Port Alegre, Brazil (Jan 2001); Policy Forum on Using Knowledge for Development at Wilton Park, London (March 2001); Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development in Chiang Mai, Thailand (March 2001); Workshop on Development by Design, organised by the Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge in Washington (July 2001); II WIPO International Conference on Electronic Commerce and IP in Geneva (Sep 2001); Workshop on IPR, WTO, TRIPS Agreement and Environment, organised by UNEP in Geneva (Dec 2001); International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle at Harvard University, Boston (Sep 2000); Global Dialogue on the Role of the Village in the 21st Century: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood in Hannover, Germany (August 2000); European Science Foundation’s Workshop on Biotechnology, Agriculture and Environmental Policy in Rome (May 2000) and Second Global Knowledge Conference in Kula Lumpur (March 2000).
Coordinated a large research programme (6,50,000 CAD) 1993-2003 on Indigenous Knowledge Innovation and Network (Global) and Grassroots Incentives for Sustainable Natural Resource Management through collaboration between IIMA and SRISTI on one hand and other editors of regional language version of Honey Bee. The phase III of this project focuses on women innovators and knowledge network.
InfoDev Division of World Bank is supporting a project on creating electronic knowledge network among grassroots innovators using multimedia technologies. A multimedia database on Honey Bee and SRISTI's collection on grassroots innovations was presented at the first Global Knowledge Conference, Toronto, 1997.
Coordinating a project on creating a multi language electronic database on grassroots innovations developed by Honey Bee Network and SRISTI, supported by NISSAT, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.
Finished a research project on Harnessing Wisdom for Watershed Management partly supported by FAO, pursuing research on in situ conservation of agro biodiversity and generating incentives for the same. WIPO has sponsored international case studies on Role of IPRs in Benefit Sharing to be circulated to General Assembly of WIPO.
Has been a consultant to CGIAR/World Bank, Swiss Development Co operation, BMZ, IADS, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council and Institute, Ford Foundation, IDRC, UNESCO, ISNAR, FAO, IFAD, National Institute of Health, USA, UNDP, WIPO, UNEP, CBD, WIPO, FTPP/FAO, OECD, UNDP, besides numerous national organisations such as NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development), voluntary organisations, Member, Expert Committee constituted by Government of India to revamp Khadi and Village Industries Board and launch of new programmes, Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology (NDUAT), Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), MOEF, co-ordinated a joint report on Reorganisation of Indian Council of Agricultural Re¬search Headquarters (1991). Since 1993, have reduced consultancy considerably to focus all energies on local innovations.