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UN International Year of the Woman Farmer Some Perspectives from Village Studies in India: A Report
March 30, 2026
Research
Examining the Ground for Adoption of Digital Technologies in Agricultural Production in India
Sai Chandan Kotu, Sandipan Baksi, Tapas S. Modak, and Nagesh Maurya
March 6, 2026
Event
One-Day Consultation on The Dynamics of Agricultural Innovation in North India: A Report
February 3, 2026
Research
A Note on Studying Non-Agricultural Activity in Rural India
V. K. Ramachandran
December 3, 2025
Event
Voices From the Lab and the Field: Oral Histories of Agrarian Change : A Report
FAS Team
September 27, 2025
Research
Realities of Inequality in Rural India: A Few Clarifications
Soham Bhattacharya
August 29, 2025
Event
Measuring Poverty in India : A Report
FAS Team
December 19, 2024
Tributes
Tribute to Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi
FAS Team
November 29, 2024
Event
Webinar on Costs and Incomes from Crop Production in India : A Report
FAS Team
November 16, 2024
Research
Unequal Work: Explaining the Recent Increase in Female Workers in Rural India
Nency Agrawal
March 25, 2024
Event
FAS Webinar | Agriculture and Budgets in India
FAS Team
February 21, 2024
Research
Limited Options, Low Wages: The Working Lives of Dalit Women Workers in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Madhura Swaminathan
February 6, 2024
Tributes
Deepest Condolences: M.S. Swaminathan (1925-2023)
September 29, 2023
Research
Land Reforms and Change: Illustrations from Villages in Central Kerala
Deepak Johnson
July 26, 2023
Event Report
#FASLecture | Climate Change and Agriculture in India
May 19, 2023
Research
Handling Unit-level Data of NSSO’s SAS 2019 Using R: A Guide for Beginners
C. A. Sethu
April 25, 2023
Tributes
Remembering Madan Gopal Ghosh
FAS Team
April 21, 2023
Event
FAS Congratulates AIAWU
FAS Team
February 20, 2023
Event
FAS Congratulates Vijoo Krishnan
FAS Team
December 16, 2022
Research
Environmental Release of GM-Mustard in India: Cause for Hope
Sandipan Baksi
November 3, 2022
Research
Deregulation of Agricultural Marketing: How has it Affected the APMC System in Karnataka?
Ayush Kumar
September 7, 2022
Tributes
Remembering Professor Abhijit Sen
FAS Team
September 3, 2022
Tributes
Remembering Professor S Parasuraman
FAS Team
September 3, 2022
Research
Kharif MSP Announcement has to be Reconciled with Rising Costs across India
N. Sujan, Deepak Johnson
June 27, 2022
Research
Wheat Export and Food Security: Where Does India Stand?
Madhura Swaminathan, Deepak Johnson
May 19, 2022
Research
Women and the Household Food Economy
Madhura Swaminathan, Sanjukta Chakraborty
April 1, 2022
Research
How Did the MGNREGS Perform During the Pandemic?
Subhajit Patra
March 3, 2022
Research
Reflections on the Method of Focus Groups Discussions in Rural India: Experiences from a Tamil Nadu Village
C. A. Sethu
February 25, 2022
Research
Crop Insurance: An Overview from Situation Assessment Surveys
Rakesh Kumar Mahato, Sanjukta Chakraborty
January 7, 2022
Research
Changes in Income Structure of Agricultural Households: Insights from the Situation Assessment Surveys
Kunal Munjal
October 29, 2021
Research
The Paltry Increase in MSP for Rabi 2022-23 Crops Will Not Address the Growing Farming Crisis
Soham Bhattacharya, Tapas Modak
September 22, 2021
Research
What does the Situation Assessment Survey Say about MSP and Procurement Operations?
Deepak Johnson
September 18, 2021
Tributes
Tribute to Gautam Das
FAS Team
September 17, 2021
Research
Changing Contours of Rural Tenancy in India
Soham Bhattacharya
September 8, 2021
Research
Access to Information and Agriculture Extension Services for Farmer Households: Evidence from the Situation Assessment Surveys
Subhajit Patra
August 10, 2021
Research
Using the India TUS Unit Level Data: Some Notes on Method (and Some STATA Code!)
Smriti Rao, R. Vijayamba
July 20, 2021
Research
At 90, C.T. Kurien – Scholar of Social Conscience – Is More Relevant Than Ever
Parvathi Menon
July 16, 2021
Research
The eradication of extreme poverty in China, 1981 to 2019
R. Ramakumar
July 10, 2021
Research
A New Understanding of Women’s Work in Rural India
May 10, 2021
Event
Studying Women’s Work: Women Farmers in India
Madhura Swaminathan, Jagmati Sangwan
April 13, 2021
Research
Bihar versus Punjab: Selective Use of Data Misinforms Policy
R. Ramakumar
December 17, 2020
Research
Farmers’ Protest Against Farm Laws: Impressions from the Tikri Border
Shamsher Singh
December 17, 2020
Event
Report on Book Launch of Women and Work in Rural India
FAS Team
September 5, 2020
Research
Returns from Group Farming: A Case Study of Kudumbashree Women’s Farming Groups
Deepak Johnson
August 17, 2020
Research
Implications of the Collapse of Income from Migration: Reflections from Two Villages in Bihar
Sandipan Baksi, Rakesh Mahato
July 11, 2020
Research
Missing the Elephant in the Room: The Need to Address Human-Animal Conflict
R. Ramakumar
June 6, 2020
Research
Harvesting Misery
Gaurav Bansal and Soham Bhattacharya
June 4, 2020
Commentary Research
Locust Invasion Warrants Urgent National Response
K. D. Prathapan
June 1, 2020
Research
MGNREGS and the Pandemic Crisis: Reflections from Tripura
Ranjini Basu and Tapas Singh Modak
May 26, 2020
Research
Impact of Covid-19 on the Indian Countryside: Some Findings
FAS Team
April 25, 2020
Research
Building Inclusive Food Systems
Madhura Swaminathan
April 15, 2020
Research
When the Invisible Disappeared: Migrant Labour in Agriculture in the Pandemic
R. Ramakumar
April 14, 2020
Research
The Covid­-19 Pandemic and Indian Agriculture: A Note
R. Ramakumar
March 31, 2020
Research
Women’s Access to Banking in India: Policy Context, Trends, and Predictors
Pallavi Chavan
February 17, 2020
Commentary Research
Randomised Controlled Trials and Non-Randomised Politics: What Makes for Good Policy?
Aparajita Bakshi
December 19, 2019
Research
Studying the Rural and Liberal Education
Shamsher Singh
December 15, 2019
Research
Comparative Study of Rice Cultivation in Thrissur District and the Mekong River Delta
FAS Team
October 10, 2019
Research
Agricultural Policy Impasse and the Way Forward: A Conversation with Vijoo Krishnan
Deepak Johnson
September 13, 2019
Research
Good Diets in the Asia-Pacific Region: Three Countries Score Top Marks
Madhura Swaminathan
August 24, 2019
Research
The Fact/Fiction of Indian Agriculture
Alex M Thomas
June 20, 2019
Research
The Burden of Cooking: Evidence from a Karnataka Village
Sanjukta Chakraborty
March 28, 2019
Research
Land Transactions in West Bengal: Evidence from Three Study Villages
Abhinav Kapoor
January 4, 2019
Research
Deprivation in a Developed Economy: Recent Findings from the United Kingdom
Soham Bhattacharya
November 28, 2018
Research
Are Rural Households Really Saving? NABARD National Financial Inclusion Survey - 2
Madhura Swaminathan
October 8, 2018
Research
NABARD National Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS) - 1
Madhura Swaminathan
October 3, 2018
Research
Agricultural Tenancy and the Recommendations of the Dalwai Committee
Soham Bhattacharya
September 24, 2018
Event
Congratulations to R. Ramakumar
FAS Team
September 21, 2018
Research
Kudumbashree’s Success as a Multi-stakeholder Partnership to Improve Food Security and Nutrition: Report by High Level International Committee
Deepak Johnson
August 14, 2018
Research
Documenting the Kisan Long March
Aparajita Bakshi
July 18, 2018
Event
Address by the Chairperson on the occasion of the First FAS Annual Public Lecture
FAS Team
July 12, 2018
Research
Women’s Education in Odisha: A District Profile
Subhadarshee Nayak
May 6, 2018
Research
Does Market Intervention Scheme Really Help Potato Farmers?
Deepak Johnson
February 21, 2018
Research
"How do Small Farmers Fare?" in Journal of Economic Literature
FAS Team
February 20, 2018
Research
The WTO and Food Security: Beyond the 11th Ministerial Conference
Sachin
February 4, 2018
Research
Paltry Returns
Siddhartha Mitra
January 9, 2018
Research
Rice Cultivation in Kole Wetlands of Kerala
Deepak Johnson
December 27, 2017
Research
Migrant Tomato Pickers of Southern Italy
Ranjini
November 24, 2017
Research
The Tripura Model
Madhura Swaminathan
November 16, 2017
Research
Women's Access to Land
Madhura Swaminathan.
October 16, 2017
Research
Rural Women Work (At Least) 50 Hours a Week
L. Vijay Kumar and Sanjukta Chakraborty.
October 16, 2017
Research
How Do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies in India
Madhura Swaminathan
October 7, 2017
Research
Misunderstanding Data, Poor Analysis, and Wrong Conclusions
T. Jayaraman
August 24, 2017
Event
A Prestigious Award for Jun-ichi Okabe
Events
August 10, 2017
Research
The Effects of Extreme Temperature on Crop Yield in Karnataka
Kamal Kumar Murari
July 25, 2017
Research
Forests and Food Security
Madhura Swaminathan
July 4, 2017
Book Review Research
Review of A New Statistical Domain in India
Anirudh Tagat
July 4, 2017
Commentary Research
The Shrinking Policy Space for Food Security
Madhura Swaminathan
June 12, 2017
Event
Visit to Kolar Chikkaballapura Milk Union Ltd (KOMUL)
FAS Team
June 10, 2017
Research
Women’s Work in Animal Care
Madhura Swaminathan
May 25, 2017
Research
The Agricultural Potential of Tripura
M. S. Swaminathan
April 12, 2017
Research
De-Regulation of Tenancy in Rural India
Madhura Swaminathan
February 1, 2017
Research
How do Small Farmers Fare in India?
Madhura Swaminathan
January 15, 2017
Research
Interim Report of the Committee to Study the Impact of Demonetisation on Kerala
FAS Team
December 26, 2016
Report Research
A Report on the Socio-Economic Survey of Households in Taliparamba Constituency
Deepak Johnson
October 20, 2016
Research
The Contribution of Agriculture to Rural Livelihoods
Madhura Swaminathan
September 19, 2016
Research
Monsoon in Marathwada – Hopes Belied: The Case of Osmanabad District
Karan
September 14, 2016
Research
Income from Forests
Madhura
August 6, 2016
Research
Gujarat: The Azadi Kooch March and Land Reform
R. Ramakumar
August 6, 2016

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