Sheetal Patil

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EDUCATION:

2017    MA, Economics (Part-time) CV Raman University Kota, Chhattisgarh, India
2012    BA, Economics EIILM University Sikkim, India
2004    BCA (Distance Learning) Indira Gandhi National Open University Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
1998    Diploma in Civil Engineering Government Polytechnic Institute in Maharashtra Pune,

                                                  Maharashtra, India

   

Countries: India
States: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
Cities: Bangalore, Mysore, Ranchi, Shimla, Jabalpur, Pune, Uttarkashi
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada

Sheetal Somashekar Patil worked as Research Associate and Senior Research Associate at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) for 11 years and later as a faculty member at Azim Premji University for nine years before joining IIHS.

 

Sheetal’s domain of research, practice and teaching at the IIHS School of Environment and Sustainability is focused on integrated agri-food systems, especially on urban and peri-urban food systems, food and ecosystems service, climate change adaptation and urban sustainability. She contributes to the IIHS Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory (LTUEO) through research and practice that involves integration of food-water-ecology dimensions, linking urbanisation, sustainable development, urban agriculture and food systems, and urban nature-based solutions. She has been collaborating with IIHS in the recent past on urban food gardens and urban agriculture.

 

With academic training in economics and field experiences in agri-food systems, agro-ecology and sustainability have formed a pivot of her research and teaching over the past two decades. The book that she co-authored in 2019, ‘Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India: City and the Peasant’, unpacks the agro-ecological impacts of urbanisation with an attempt to unravel the complex maze and diversity amidst a notable persistence of small farms, which are large in number, yet invisible in Indian agriculture.

 

Sheetal spends her leisure time either with trees or experimenting with food in her kitchen.

Teaching

  • Agricultural sustainability, Azim Premji University,Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Food, Azim Premji University,Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Environmental Economics, Azim Premji University,Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Grow, Cook and Eat, Food, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
  • Food and the City, Food, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
  • Urban Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS

 

Training

  • Quantitative skills , Azim Premji University , Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Pre-PhD training – Qualitative Data Analysis , Center for Multidisciplinary Research , Dharwad, Karnataka, India
  • Agroecology and livelihoods , Gram panchayat elected representatives and NGO personnel , Karnataka
  • Capacity Building Programme for Town Planning Officials of Maharashtra (YASHADA), Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS
  • Capacity Building Programmes on Urban Development (DoPT), Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS

Journal Articles

  • Rege, A., Bhan, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Patil, S., Singh, I., Xu, W. & Zeng, S. (2024). Seeking a multi-dimensional approach to understand agricultural commodity expansion in Asian tropics, Biotropica. e13375. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13375
  • Patil, S., Seshadri, S.R., Dhanya, B. et al. (2024). Indigenous food systems in transition: flourishing amidst changing forest-farm-food nexus among the Solegas of South India. GeoJournal 89, 191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-11200-9
  • Pradyumna, A., Patil, S., & Ramesh, M. (2023). Considering vulnerable communities in climate mitigation and adaptation plans, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 101(2), 149-151. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.22.288846
  • Rao, N., Patil, S., Singh, C., Roy, P., Pryor, C., Poonacha, P., & Genes, M. (2022). Cultivating sustainable and healthy cities: A systematic literature review of the outcomes of urban and peri-urban agriculture. Sustainable Cities and Society, 85, Article 104063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104063
  • Singh, C., Patil, S., Poonacha, P., Koduganti, M., & Sharma, S. (2021). When the “field” moves online: Reflections on virtual data collection during COVID-19. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 4(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v4i2.414
  • Patil, S., Vanjari, R. S., & Purushothaman, S. (2018). Urbanisation and new agroecologies: the story of Bengaluru’s peripheries. Economic and Political Weekly, 53(41), 71-79.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2017). Regional economies and small farmers in Karnataka. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(46), 78-84.
  • Patil, S., Reidsma, P., Shah, P., Purushothaman, S., & Wolf, J. (2014). Comparing conventional and organic agriculture in Karnataka, India: Where and when can organic farming be sustainable?. Land use policy, 37, 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.01.006
  • Purushothaman, S., Patil, S., & Francis, I. (2013). Assessing the impact of policy-driven agricultural practices in Karnataka, India. Sustainability Science, 8(2), 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-012-0188-y
  • Purushothaman, S., Patil, S., Francis, I., König, H. J., Reidsma, P., & Hegde, S. (2013). Participatory impact assessment of agricultural practices using the land use functions framework: case study from India. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, 9(1), 2-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2012.721005
  • Purushothaman, S., Patil, S., & Francis, I. (2012). Impact of policies favouring organic inputs on small farms in Karnataka, India: a multicriteria approach. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 14(4), 507-527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-012-9340-1

 

Books/Book Chapters

  • Koduganti, M. & Patil, S. (2024). Cultivating Change in Cities: Exploring and Classifying the Determinants of Urban Agriculture in India. In Al-Kodmany, K., Govind, M., Khan, S. & Kole, C. (ed.) Sustainable Urban Agriculture.
  • Patil, S., Rao, N., Koduganti, M., Singh, C., Poonacha, P., Sharma, S., Roy, P., Mahalingam, A., & Singh, N. (2023). Sowing sustainable cities: Lessons for urban agriculture practices in India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SSC12.2023
  • Koduganti, M., Hegde, R., & Patil, S. (2023). From your garden to your plate: Citizen-led gardening in Bengaluru. In Raghunathan, R., Rajan, S. J., Suryanarayanan, A., Nirmal, N., Jhina, A., Debroy, I., Abraham, E. S., & Meghna, C. N (Eds.), Sowing sustainable cities: Lessons for urban agriculture practices in India (pp. 82-87). Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SSC12.2023
  • Singh, C., Koduganti, M., & Patil, S. (2023). Leading from the top: Wet waste composting and rooftop gardening in Pune municipality offices. In Raghunathan, R., Rajan, S. J., Suryanarayanan, A., Nirmal, N., Jhina, A., Debroy, I., Abraham, E. S., & Meghna, C. N (Eds.), Sowing sustainable cities: Lessons for urban agriculture practices in India (pp. 43-46). Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SSC12.2023
  • Koduganti, M., Patil, S., & Singh, C. (2023). Suriya Prakashathil Krishi1: The story of Cochin airport. In Raghunathan, R., Rajan, S. J., Suryanarayanan, A., Nirmal, N., Jhina, A., Debroy, I., Abraham, E. S., & Meghna, C. N (Eds.), Sowing sustainable cities: Lessons for urban agriculture practices in India (pp. 50-53). Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SSC12.2023
  • Rao, S. S., Dhanya, B., & Patil, S. (2022, Forthcoming). Food systems in transition: The case of the Solega in Karnataka. Aakar Books.
  • Patil, S., Nguyen, T. T., Dhanya, B., Purushothaman, S., & Hoffmann, E. (2021). Temporal dynamics of land use change and spatial urbanization indices in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru over the past three decades. In E. Hoffmann, A. Buerkert, S. von Cramon-
  • Taubadel, K. B. Umesh, P. P. Shivaraj, & P. J. Vazhacharickal (Eds.), Rural-urban interface: An interdisciplinary research approach to urbanisation processes around the Indian megacity Bengaluru (pp. 21-34). Springer.
  • Seshadri, S. R., Dhanya, B., Patil, S., & Vanjari, R. S. (2021) Flourishing amidst ecological pressures: Insights from the experience of Solegas of Karnataka, India. In J. Dutta, S. Goswami, & A. Mitra (Eds.), Multidimensional approaches to impacts of changing environment on human health (pp. 194-206). Routledge.
  • Patil, S., & Purushothaman, S. (2020) Landowners as non-farm workers – A case of small farmer migrants in Karnataka. In D. Mishra, & P. Nayak (Eds.), Land and livelihoods in neoliberal India (pp. 85-102).  Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Purushothaman S., & Patil, S. (2019) Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India: City and the peasant. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8336-5
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Contemporary Agrarian questions—an introduction. In Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India (pp. 1-23). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Family farms in Agrarian literature—A Critique. In Agrarian change and urbanization in southern India (pp. 25-52). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Study approach, processes and methods. In Agrarian change and urbanization in southern India (pp. 53-75). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Agrarian ecology and society in the study regions: A historical perspective. In Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India (pp. 77-99). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Agriculture in the era of urbanisation. In Agrarian change and urbanization in southern India (pp. 101-117). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). The city and the peasant—family farms around Bengaluru. In Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India (pp. 119-152). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Family farms around Ramanagara. In Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India (pp. 153-182). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Agricultural urbanism—family farms around Mandya. In Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India (pp.183-211). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Family farms in Yadgir district. In Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India (pp. 213-244). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2019). Withering family farms. In Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India (pp. 245-282). Springer.
  • Patil, S., & Purushothaman, S. (2018) Methods for integrated sustainability assessment: The case of smallholder farming in Karnataka, South India. In R. Brinkman, & S. J. Garren (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of sustainability: Case studies and practical solutions (pp. 261-281). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Purushothaman, S., Abraham, R., & Patil, S. (2013). Tropical farms as social-ecological systems: Tools for assessment. In A. Christinck, & M. Padmanabhan (Eds.), Cultivate diversity! a hand book on transdisciplinary approaches to agrobiodiversity research (pp. 163-183). Margraf.
  • Patil, S., Purushothaman, S., & Gsottbauer, E. (2013). Economic instruments to reconcile conservation and livelihoods: Analysing the potential of bamboo in Karnataka. In S. Purushothaman, & Abraham, R. (Eds.), Livelihood strategies in Southern India: Conservation and poverty reduction in forest fringes (175-187). Springer.
  • Dhanya, B., Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2013). Rural collectives for livelihoods and conservation: Lessons from Malè Mahadeswara Hills, Karnataka. In S. Purushothaman, & R. Abraham (Eds.), Livelihood strategies in Southern India: Conservation and poverty reduction in forest fringes (109-133). Springer.
  • Purushothaman, S., & Patil, S. (2013). Land-use practices and regulations to reduce poverty: lessons from Anaikatty, Tamil Nadu. In S. Purushothaman, & R. Abraham (Eds.), Livelihood strategies in Southern India: Conservation and poverty reduction in forest fringes (157-174). Springer.

 

Other Writing

  • Patil, S. (2024). Exploring COVID-19 as a game-changer for urban food systems in India. International Geographical Congress. 24-30 August 2024, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Sharma, S., Singh, C., & Patil, S. (2023). Do home gardens regulate indoor temperature? A pilot study in Bengaluru, India [Virtual presentation]. In Adaptation Futures 2023, Montreal, Canada.
  • Patil, S., Purushothaman, S., & Kashyap, S. (2023, November). Land use conversion for urbanization: Two case studies of misaligned institutions and diverging objectives from Karnataka, India. Paper presented at the 7th India Land and Development Conference 2023, FLAME University.
  • Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure (UP-AGrI)
  • Greening Urban Food Systems: Building Sustainable Urban Agriculture Practices in Bengaluru through Nature-Based Solutions
  • Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory (LTUEO)
  • Sustainable Urban Agriculture at IIHS Campus, Kengeri
  • Scoping Study of Human Migration and Displacement within India