Kavitha Kuruganti

Kavitha Kuruganti is a farmers’ rights activist, who has been working on promoting sustainable farming and sustainable farm livelihoods for around 3 decades now. She is associated with a volunteer-driven national platform called Alliance For Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj) and is also one of the founders of MAKAAM - Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch. 

She incidentally was part of a research team that brought out a report from southern Odisha about "Forests as Food Producing Habitats", documenting the dependence of local communities on uncultivated foods. One of her earliest projects was on reviving traditional seed diversity in farmers' fields, through work with women farmers in the Deccan Development Society (in Telangana state, India). Her work life got initiated with a project that envisioned an alternative PDS model for rainfed India, around localised nutrition security paradigms led by women farmers.