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About Us

FAS in Time

2003-2005

Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS)
is registered as a charitable trust in India (2003)

2003-2005

FAS begins operations from its
Kolkata office (2005)

2003-2005

FAS conducts its first surveys
in three villages in
Andhra Pradesh (2005)

2006-2010

FAS publishes the first volume
of the Agrarian Studies Series, Essays on
Agrarian Relations in Less-Developed Countries

2006-2010

FAS publishes the first volume
of the survey series, Socio-Economic Surveys
of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh:
A Study of Agrarian Relations (2010)

2006-2010

FAS conducted surveys in Tripura (2005),
Maharashtra (2007), Rajasthan (2007, 2010),
M.P. (2008), Karnataka (2009), West Bengal (2010)

RAS Launched

2011-2015

FAS launches its peer-reviewed journal,
the Review of Agrarian Studies (RAS)
(2011)

FAS Bangalore office

2011-2015

The Foundation's office relocates to Bengaluru, and a small full-time
research staff begins operating from
the new office (2012)

FAS Tenth Anniversary Conference

2011-2015

FAS marks its tenth anniversary with the conference On Agrarian Issues
in Kochi, Kerala

2016-2020

Sandipan Baksi appointed as
Director at FAS (2018)

2016-2020

The conference on “Small-Scale Farming in India: Results from Field Surveys” is held in Thiruvananthapuram (2016)

2016-2020

FAS hosts its first Annual Public Lecture,
delivered by M. S. Swaminathan (2018)

2021-2025

The Young Scholars' Online Seminar Series (YSOSS)
is launched in April (2022)

2021-2025

The International Conference on
Agrarian Change is held in
Thiruvananthapuram from
November 6–9 (2025)

2026-

FAS conducts a one-day Consultation on "The Dynamics of Agricultural Innovation in North India"

Who We Are
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) is an independent research organisation committed to multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical enquiry in agrarian studies.
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The Team
A core team of research and coordination staff, along with a wide network of research collaborators from across the globe.
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Impact
Long-lasting contributions to academic and policy thinking on rural India. Creating networks of young scholars.
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Gallery

Glimpses from the field

Field Visits

Photographs captured during the field visits in rural India

Events

Documenting major events conducted by the Foundation

Visitors

Scholars, media professionals, and academics visiting FAS.

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FAS in Space

Unique Insights

Small-scale Farming

Small-scale Farming

Small farmer households in India are unable to generate adequate incomes to maintain a minimum standard of living.

Public policy support is urgently needed to deliver economies of scale to small farmers.

Small farmers engage with input outcome and labour markets.

Women in Rural Economies

Women in Rural Economies

Women in rural India are not withdrawing from the labour force.

They deploy their labour very differently from men.

The gender wage gap continues to persist in rural India, and women face significant disadvantages in accessing credit.

Rural Labour Force

Wage Stagnation in Rural India

There are no pure agricultural wage workers in rural India, with most workers engaged in both agricultural and non-agricultural activities. Agriculture alone cannot absorb the rural workforce.

Wage rates in rural India have been stagnating for more than a decade in real prices, across regions and gender.

Science and Technology

Science and Technology

Science and technology have the potential to bring about progressive social change in the countryside.

The agrarian structure plays a critical role in shaping the adoption of modern technologies and their implications.

Small-scale Farming

Small-scale Farming

Small farmers are unable to generate adequate incomes to maintain a minimum standard of living. Public Policy can deliver economies of scale to small farmers, which can in turn ensure they have a minimum standard of living.

Women in Rural Economies

Women in Rural Economies

All women in rural economies are workers, engaged in a wide range of economic activities. Official statistics are not equipped to measure women’s work in sufficient detail, leading to a significant underrepresentation of their work.

Wage Stagnation in Rural India

Wage Stagnation in Rural India

Wage rates in rural India have stagnated for more than a decade in real prices, across regions and gender. Gender gap in labour in the countryside has more than one dimension.

Science and Technology

Science and Technology

The interplay of science & technology and agrarian relations at a local level reshape each other. Science & technology have the potential to bring about progressive social change in the countryside.

Research

Ongoing Projects

Oral History Project on Agricultural Scientist....

Oral History Project on Agricultural Scientist....

Developing an oral history archive of independent India’s first

Notable Projects from the Past

Pandemic Studies Unit

Pandemic Studies Unit

studies of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on India’s countryside.

Publications

Events

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    Madhura Swaminathan is Professor and Head, Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre. She is one the Trustees of the Foundation. Webpage