Scientist / Researcher
Debal Deb
Conservation Scientist and Seed Keeper
Biodiversity defender preserving traditional crop varieties and seed knowledge.
Millet Relevance: Represents the conservation side of the millet movement: landraces, farmer seed systems, traditional varieties and ecological agriculture.
Key Contributions
- Known for work on seed conservation, ecological agriculture and traditional crop diversity through living seed systems.
- Millet relevance lies in protecting small millet landraces and the knowledge needed to keep them in cultivation.
- His approach argues that seed diversity is a public heritage, not only a commercial resource.
For publication, focus on conservation and farmer seed sovereignty rather than broad unverifiable counts.
