Overview The project report titled “Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20,” is out and can be accessed here.In 2021, the Foundation conducted a research project to analyse the…
Overview The Covid-19 pandemic has had a deep and multifaceted impact on life, production, and work in rural India. While some of these effects are temporary, the pandemic will also…
Overview This research project titled “Trends in Gender Division of Work and Wages in Rural India” was conducted by the Foundation in association with the Evidence Module of the CGIAR GENDER…
Overview The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) undertook a project funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), in consultation with T. Sundararaman, Independent Consultant and Adjunct Faculty at the JIPMER…
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies, in collaboration with Monash University, Australia, and ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBGPR), has initiated two research projects – “The Dynamics of Agricultural Innovation…
Overview In December 2008, FAS organised a colloquium in Chalsa at which Japanese and Indian scholars discussed problems of method in gathering, managing, processing, and presenting information, particularly statistical information,…
Overview This was a collaborative project with Jun-ichi Okabe of the Yokohama National University. A book by J. Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi on the subject has been published as A New…
Overview This project was completed in 2016 and resulted in the report written for the Indian Council of Social Science Research by Aparajita Bakshi and Arindam Das: “Income Diversification in…
Overview Among the factors associated with this increase are the expansion of irrigation and the increased application of bio-chemical inputs, particularly chemical fertilizers. It is noteworthy that 16 percent of…
Overview This project was completed in 2017 with the publication of How Do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies in India.This research examined the socio-economic characteristics of small-scale farming households in different…
