Dr. Suma. T. R. is a Social Anthropologist and cofounder of Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology, a research and advocacy organisation working towards human nature coexistence based at Wayanad.  She served as Social Scientist at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation based in Chennai south India, for 11 years and extensively studied the social organisation of Agrobiodiversity. Her larger research interest is the dynamics of human nature relations from a ‘political ecology’ perspective. Her research for more than 15 years, with different cultural groups in western Ghats, Kerala spans areas such as human-animal relations, Land governance, biodiversity governance, social organisation of agrobiodiversity and local food systems. Her doctoral research ‘The reorganization of Kurichya Joint Families and the Natural Resource Management System’ analyses the macro and micro-level politics and factors that facilitate change in the social organization of a south Indian agrarian Adivasi community. She has published 24 research papers, several research reports, popular articles and 10 ethnographic short films based on research to her credit. Currently she is also acting as the research collaborator of the project ‘Anthropogenic Soils’ at the University of Oslo in south India.