Dr. R.S. Chaudhary: Principal Scientist and Head of Division at Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal. He has worked on various research tasks of soil and water conservation, water-shed development, catchment survey and planning, efficient management of water and nutrients, soil surface manipulations, conservation tillage, land configurations, and quantifi-cation of runoff and soil losses, in various soils and cropping systems of India. As enthusiastic researcher and critical reviewer he has a number of research papers in national and international journals, book chapters, review articles, popular articles, and bulletins to his credit. Presently be is involved in the research projects on conservation agriculture, climate change, assessment of soil quality and soil resilience.