Changing Contours of Rural Tenancy in India
Attempts to understand the underlying causes for the resurgence of tenancy.
Attempts to understand the underlying causes for the resurgence of tenancy.
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) is happy to announce a fieldwork grant for a new comparative study on rice cultivation in the kole cultivation areas of Kerala and rice cultivation in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam.
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) congratulates R. Ramakumar, Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, for being awarded the Bernstein & Byres Prize in Agrarian Change for 2017, for his article ‘Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India’.
I am indeed honoured to have this opportunity to make an intervention on the occasion of the public lecture by Dr M. S. Swaminathan. I am an activist of the All India Kisan Sabha, the oldest and the largest peasant organization in the country. The All India Kisan Sabha, since its inception in 1936 onwards, has consistently argued in favour of using advancements in science and technology to increase agricultural production and productivity.
The Book titled "How do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies" finds a place in the list of annotations that appear in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (Vol. 55, No. 4).
The book titled “How Do Small Farmers Fare: Evidence from Village Studies in India”, edited by Madhura Swaminathan and Sandipan Baksi, is a study of the small farm economy in India by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies.
The Japan Society of Economic Statistics has presented its 2017 Award to Jun-ichi Okabe, Professor, Yokohama National University, for the book he wrote with Aparajita Bakshi, A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry into Village Panchayat Databases, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.