Publications & Presentations 

• 2020 June: LeRoy Patton and Neeraja Havaligi. A Learning Journey: Self-Awareness of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Organizational Development with the SDGs.
• 2020 April: Community Dialogue_Pulse from Participants , GPSEN Sustainability Symposium- A call for Action, Portland, OR. USA.
• 2019 December: Hosted the Talanoa Dialogues for the Virtual Bridge to COP25 event at OMSI and Lewis and Clark College, Portland.  Here is the Pulse of Portland report based on the Talanoa Dialogues.  
• 2019 October: Workshop and presentation for Sustainable Development Goals at GlobalPDX Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• 2019 September: Panelist at International Peace Day exploring the linkages between climate change and global peace and security issues, my focus being on food and nutrition security.
• 2019 July:  Invitational lecture on "Food System and Climate change"  at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. The lecture was organized under the auspices of the World Bank sponsored ICAR-CAAST program.
• 2019 June: SDG 11 Expert presentation at Portland State University for instructors and students from EAN University in Colombia, and students from Japan, China, Saudi Arabia. 
• 2019 February: Everyday and for Everyone: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), workshop offered at Portland State University.
• 2018: Havaligi, N. 2018. “With Inclusion and Equity, can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Flower within the Planetary Boundaries?”. Pacific Journal of Science and Technology. 19(1): 389- 399. http://www.akamaiuniversity.us/PJST19_1_389.pdf
• 2018: Saving the Earth, Bite by Bite - Earth Week Panel Discussion. Hosted by PSU Veg Education Group and Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC). My presentation is available here and the list of resources is here.
• 2018: GlobalPDX Seminar on 'Achieving the SDGs conversations: How the Sustainable Development Goals came to be' January 24, 2018 at Mercy Corps Action Center, Portland, OR, USA.
• 2018: Reaching out like mycelia. Thoughts on diversity, equity and inclusion published on the Intertwine's Outside Voice blog. 
• 2017: "GPSEN's work in the region, and lessons from urban agrobiodiversity research" presented at NWAEG Conference, November 2017 at Reed College, Portland, OR, USA.
• 2017: "Agrobiodiversity and sustainable agriculture innovations in community gardens" interactive workshop conducted in 38th National Conference held by the American Community Garden  Association at Hartford, CT, USA.
• 2017:  "Food for Earth: Agrobiodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals", talk presented at Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.  
• 2016:  "Urban Agrobiodiversity" interactive workshop presented on World Kitchen Day celebrations at Mumbai, India, hosted by Urban Leaves, a leading non-profit in urban greening, food security and sustainable living in urban areas.

• 2012: Greywater Residential Study:  Lessons Learned. Co presented with Laura Allen of Greywater Action at California's first Greywater Conference hosted by Tuolumne County Environmental Health and Sierra Watershed Progressive, Yosemite, CA, USA. 
• 2012: “Urban Agriculture directory, a tool for tracking urban agricultural diversity and climate change adaptation" paper presented at the third International Urban Biodiversity Conference, URBIO 2012 at Mumbai, India. 

• 2012: “Regenerative urban ecosystems: Role of greywater, rainwater and urban agriculture for urban water and food security" paper presented at the third International Urban Biodiversity Conference, URBIO 2012 at Mumbai, India. 

• 2012: “Urban Agriculture-An (unlikely) biodiversity conservation tool?” paper presented at the International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, April 2012. 

• 2011: Paper “Contribution of urban agriculture to food security, biodiversity conservation and reducing agricultural C foot print” published in Springer book titled “Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Climate Change” as a part of new book series “Climate Change Management”. http://www.springer.com/economics/environmental/book/978-3-642-14775-3 

• 2009: “Role of agrobiodiversity and indigenous knowledge conservation in food and global health in the climate change scenario”, KLIMA 2009 conference, http://www.klima2009.net/ 

• 2009: “Contribution of urban agriculture to food security, biodiversity conservation and reducing agricultural C footprint", KLIMA 2009 conference, http://www.klima2009.net/ 

• 2009: “Climate change and food security in the cities” presented at the World Bank sponsored Urban Research Symposium ‘Cities and climate change: responding to an urgent 
agenda’ www.urs2009.net, 28-30 June 2009, Marseille, France. http://www.urs2009.net/papers.html 
• 2009: “Implication for international trade on agrobiodiversity conservation and food security in climate change scenario” at the NCCR Climate Change Conference (http://www.nccr- climate.unibe.ch/conferences/climate_policies/programme.pdf) at Bern, Jan 21-23, 2009. 

• 2007: Lewis, Kristen and Neeraja Havaligi, 2007. Mainstreaming Gender in UNDP’s Environment and Energy Practice: A Conceptual Overview, UNDP Environment and Energy Practice Gender Mainstreaming Guidance Series
• 2005: Wild Farm Alliance’s farm biodiversity conference and the 25th annual ecological farming conference-“Shining light on sustainable agriculture: A summary”. http://www.akamaiuniversity.us/pjst6_1_4.pdf