Arshinder Kaur

Category: Activists

Arshinder Kaur has worked on the academic level to the grassroots to enhance her community’s understanding of environmental sustainability. She has organized and coordinated schools with Navdanya on themes of ‘Organic food & Culture’, Gandhi and Non Violence, Soil as a living system, Water democracy and Third International Conference on Water and Women 2005. Arshinder has developed resource materials and worked with students and farmers throughout India to incorporate sustainable techniques and alternatives. Arshinder has also developed a system for the standardization of several traditional plants in the Indian system of medicine - Neem, Diospyrus, Careya arborea, Cucumber and Trichosanthes. She has also developed a flora field guide as a tool for the conservation and protection of Harike Wetland, a RAMSAR site, in Punjab, India.