Biography
SUNDAR KUMAR SHARMA, a Sustainable Environment and Food Systems Researcher, is originally from the Himalayas of Nepal. Sundar has travelled to various destinations for more than two decades and brought diversified knowledge systems into practice by experiencing with diversified communities that are engaged in sustainable and just food systems. He has experienced with (and learned from) local communities in South and East Asia, Europe and Australia along with intensive life learning from the ancient and traditional cultural practices of local communities around the Himalayas of Nepal. Currently, he is exploring on the values of human institutions, local knowledge systems and food cultures in shaping pathways of just and responsible post-development discourses. Sundar’s Organic Development Movements and Life Course Programming are based on his life experiences. Mr. Sharma has intensively engaged himself in exchanging knowledge and life experiences with international communities through academic and scientific conferences, ecological and organic movements, product exhibitions and innovation workshops. He is published in international journals and his articles are featured in international media too. SUNDAR NEPAL CREATION (SNC), an initiative for an advancement of human institutions and human cultures, was founded by Sundar in 2023/24. As a Founder President, Sundar is leading SNC research network towards post development discourse. Sundar is currently active in connecting scientific communities around the globe to augment the advances in Sciences and humanities.
Research Fields
Current Institution
Senior Researcher
Research for Post Development, Sundar Nepal Creation (SNC), Kathmandu, Nepal
Education Qualification
Bachelor
Food Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
ORGANIC LEADERSHIP COURSE (OLC), IFOAM, SEOUL/NEPAL/GERMANY, Germany
Master
Human and Natural Resources Studies, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Previous Work Experience
2024 - 2025 |Professor
Yogic Sciences and Wellbeing, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lecturer
Contested Discourse on Organics, Social Science/UQ, Brisbane, Australia
Journal Roles
Publications (3)
Honors and Awards
Key Note Speaker
Awarded 2021
Awarded by ORGANIC EXPO SEOUL S. KOREA/2014
Guest Speaker Travel Grant @ REGov 2011, UNIGE
Awarded 2021
Awarded by University of Geneva
GLOBAL ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCE AWARD
Awarded 2021
Awarded by University of Wellington, NZ
IPRS
Awarded 2020
Awarded by UQ, Australia
President Award 2011 (NEPAL BIDHYABHUSHAN 2011)
Awarded 2020
Awarded by President of Nepal
Funding
World Youth Movement For Democracy Conference 2011 "Delegate From Nepal"
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA (Washington D. C., United States)
NCCR scholarships fund for a research on "Political Ecology of Everest Tourism"
NCCR North South / Swiss National Science Foundation (Kathmandu and Bern, Switzerland)
Regional Governance Research Conference
UNIGE (GENEVA, Switzerland)
IPRS research grant UQ
UQ (Brisbane, Australia)
Society Memberships
Current
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
World Organic Leadership Networking
Current
IFOAM
Organic Leadership
Current
SNC, Nepal
Founder President
Association of American Geographers
Research Community Network
Social Links
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