Gaurav Mishra is currently working as Scientist in the Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun (Uttarakhand). He is a soil scientist and his research interests include soil quality assessment, sustainable land management, digital soil mapping, soil carbon dynamics and carbon modeling at the regional level.

Krishna Giri is presently working as Scientist-D in the Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India, and did  M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. He has worked on Soil Microbiology associated with Shifting Cultivation Land use systems, soil microbiome analysis of Himalayan Alder-based agroforestry, and other traditional farming systems in Nagaland state.

Arun Jyoti Nath is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science at the Assam University. He is an ecologist with a diverse experience in research and teaching. He has over 15 years' experience in carbon dynamics research. His research interest includes mitigation, sustainability, ecosystem carbon dynamics at regional, and landscape scale. Dr. Nath has authored more than 100 scientific, technical, and educational publications.

Rosa Francaviglia, with expertise in agronomy, is a senior researcher at the Councilfor Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, in Rome, Italy, since 1981 (now retired). Her main research topics include the effectsof climate change on agriculture, carbon sinks and agricultural soils, soil organic carbon simulationmodels, soil fertility, conservation agriculture, crop diversification, agro-environmental evaluations, soil quality indicators, and good agro-environmental conditions (GAEC) under the EU Common Agricultural Policy.