About

Dr. Sudarshan Dutta has more than 15 years of working as agriculture scientist in smallholder farming system. Dr. Dutta promotes sustainable farm management practices in Indian farming systems and provides leadership in planning and execution of carbon farming in India. Presently Dr. Dutta is working as Global Lead of Nature Based Solution Program at Kosher Climate, an India based Multinational organization. He is leading the Carbon Farming Program of the organization. Before that he worked in different international research and development organizations across different continents. Dr. Dutta worked extensively with smallholder farming in South Asia, South East Asia, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa since 2005. Dr. Dutta did his Postdoctoral Research in Watershed and Hydrochemistry and received a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Delaware, USA. He received several awards and published more than 100 peer reviewed scientific articles in international high impact journals, science-based magazine articles, popular articles, and policy briefs. He is the recipient of many prestigious award including Indian Society of Soil Science Young Scientist award and W. J. Benton Award, USA.