Move Towards Zero Hunger

Dr. Basanta Kumara Behera was a Professor of Biotechnology at three distinguished Indian universities, and has been involved in postgraduate teaching and research on the topics related to bio-energy management and biomass processing technology since 1978. In 2009 he joined a MNS company as adviser for speciality chemical production and drug design using microbial process technologies. Prof. Behera is associated with leading national and international companies as a technical adviser on the production of biopharmaceuticals under cGMP norms. He has authored various books published by CRC Press USA and Springer Verlag, Germany, and is also an accomplished writer, writing in many forms like free verse, haiku, Senryu, Sonnet, Tanka, and quatrain. He publishes English poems in both national and international magazines.Dr. Pramod Kumar Rout is working as a Principal Scientist at ICAR-CIRG. He completed his doctoral degree at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi and at the Genetics and Genomics Division, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK. He has also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the University of Arizona, USA and he coordinates an All India research project on goat improvement in different agro climatic zones in India. His research interests include the genetic diversity of livestock, conservation of animal genetic resources and management, genetics of disease resistance, genetics of heat stress regulation in livestock and milk genomics. He has also worked in the area of conservation of endangered goats in their natural habitat and on various developmental projects with farmers in remote corners of India.Dr. Shyambhavee Behera is a medical graduate from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, and holds an MD degree from University College of Medical Science, New Delhi. She works in the field of non-communicable disease, immunization, maternal and child health, epidemiology and health administration to promote sustainable life styles and improve health. She is currently associated with the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, an autonomous institute of the Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. She was the co-author of book series New Paradigms of Living Systems SpringerNature, Singapore Pte. Ltd.