Sagari R Ramdas

Sagari R Ramdas is a veterinary scientist, a member of the Food Sovereignty Alliance, India and is learning to be an agroecological food-farmer. She is a popular educator at the Kudali Learning Centre, in Telangana, India where she designs and facilitates transformative popular education processes on social justice, food sovereignty and Buen Vivir, with Bahujan (Dalit-OBC-Muslim) and Adivasi youth and women. Through the alliance, she works closely with pastoral, adivasi and other small and marginal farming communities organizing for food sovereignty. She writes on her interests concerning social justice, food sovereignty, livestock and ecological governance.  

Sagari holds a degree in veterinary science and animal husbandry from the College of Veterinary Science, Haryana Agriculture University, India, and a master’s in animal science specializing in animal breeding and genetics from the University of California, Davis, U.S. She was founder and a former director of Anthra, an organization of women veterinary scientists. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, U.K.

Some of her recent publications and speaking engagements can be seen here.