Anita Gracia Dohar is a researcher committed to social justice and focused on people's agency in managing livelihoods and natural resources.

Anita Gracia Dohar is a researcher committed to social justice and focused on people's agency in managing livelihoods and natural resources. She holds a B.Sc from the Bandung Institute of Technology and an M.Sc from Wageningen University & Research. Early in her career, she worked in Raja Ampat, West Papua, conducting research on resource valuation. She then worked fifteen years with Oxfam Novib in The Hague. Her work spanned two main areas: in Southeast Asia, she supported community-led livelihoods, focusing on small-scale fisherfolk rights in Indonesia and transboundary water governance in the Mekong region; and for over a decade she was the Lead for the Farmers' Agrobiodiversity Management project within Oxfam's global seed programme. She examined the politics of knowledge in seed systems and collaborated with farming communities across eight countries to strengthen locally grounded practices. This involved co-creating participatory approaches that made visible how farmers actively adapt seeds over time, negotiate access to genetic diversity, and shape adaptation pathways in dialogue with wider governance and international debates on Farmers' Rights.

Selected Publications

Dohar, A. G., & Anggraeni, D. (Eds.). (2007). Valuasi ekonomi sumberdaya alam di Kepulauan Raja Ampat [Economic valuation of natural resources in the Raja Ampat Islands]. Conservation International Indonesia.

Oxfam Novib, ANDES, CTDT, SEARICE, & CGN-WUR. (2016). Women's roles in biodiversity management: From lessons to practice and impact—Scaling up pathways in people's biodiversity management [Case study].

Salazar, R., Manicad, G., Dohar, A., & Visser, B. (2019). Participatory plant breeding: Human development and social reform. In O. T. Westengen & T. Winge (Eds.), Farmers and plant breeding: Current approaches and perspectives (pp. 161–177). Routledge.

Visser, B., Mbozi, H., Kasasa, P., Dohar, A., Salazar, R., Mushita, A., & Manicad, G. (2019). Expanding community support in genetic diversity management: The FFS approach. In O. T. Westengen & T. Winge (Eds.), Farmers and plant breeding: Current approaches and perspectives (pp. 217–230). Routledge.

Oxfam Novib. (2021). Gender journey module: SD=HS' efforts to advance women's leadership in agrobiodiversity management. The Hague: Oxfam Novib. https://seedsforresilience.org/document/gender-journey-module/

Oxfam Novib. (2021). Facilitators' field guide for FFS on participatory plant breeding: Participatory variety enhancement. The Hague: Oxfam Novib. https://seedsforresilience.org/document/field-guide-for-ffs-on-participatory-plant-breeding-pve/