Coastal Zones

Sallapudi David Brynerd is a versatile researcher having research and field experience in the areas of Anthropology, Poverty and Microfinance, Natural Resource Management, Technology Transfer, Employment Generation, Health, Women empowerment, besides his core research on “COMMONS”. Currently,

serving UIDAI as Manager (Communications) also pursuing his PhD in the Dept of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, India. An anthropologist by trainingand Development professional by Profession have had experience of working in National and International Projects deals with Women Empowerment(Velugu Project) and Young Lives: An International Study on Childhood Poverty, Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project(APRLP), CARE(APSIP), Health Management Research Institute(HMRI). While keeping his academic vigor also interested in documenting Innovative Practices of Farmers/ entrepreneurs whose innovative ideas have had some impact on the communities. As a research scholar carried out intensive field work among Fishing communities for over a decade and recorded their customs, norms, self-governance patterns, and worldview apart from their Indigenous Knowledge systems. In NIRD he contributed immensely for the successful implementation of Technology Transfer Progarmme (ToT) in 5 backward states of India covering one lakh households. With regard to his writings, he penned a wonderful thesis on:” Ecosystemic Study of a Fishing Community in Andhra Pradesh which is regarded as a masterpiece in the field of Anthropological inquiry. Out of his systematic fieldwork over the years among fishing communities he is preparing an informative Ph.D thesis to submit the same to the University of Hydearbad.