The FAS team members and research collaborators have participated as speakers in following online events.

Studying Women’s Work: Women Farmers in India

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

FAS organised an event, ‘Studying Women’s Work: Women Farmers in India,’ on March 29, 2021. This talk was an attempt to expand our understanding of women’s work in agriculture, their role in farming, and the issues and demands specific to them. The speakers for this event were Madhura Swaminathan, Professor of Economics at ISI (Bangalore), and Jagmati Sangwan, AIDWA Vice-President. Madhura spoke on the role of women in farming in India while Jagmati shed light on women’s voices in the ongoing farmers movement. view event

Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in the Informal Sector

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

The Foundation for Agrarian Studies organised a panel discussion titled “Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in the Informal Sector. The panelists for the event were Jayan J. Thomas (Associate Professor of Economics, IIT Delhi), Shamsher Singh (Assistant Professor of Sociology, FLAME University), and Arindam Das (Joint Director, FAS). The event was chaired by Surbhi Kesar (Assistant Professor of Economics, Azim Premji University). view event

The multi-dimensional impact of COVID-19 on the Indian countryside

Video Interview of R. Ramakumar, Agrarian Questions

In this interview, R Ramakumar speaks about the multi-dimensional impact of COVID-19 on the Indian countryside, on the nature of India’s agrarian crisis (differentiated by crop, class, caste and region) and on why redistributive land reforms remain an important issue politically and economically. view event

Panel Discussion on Findings from Telephone Surveys

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

Prof. Amit Basole chaired over the session which discussed the findings from the telephone surveys in 26 villages across 13 States in India on the impact of Covid-19 on the kharif production cycle and consumption in the countryside. Tapas Singh Modak, Soham Bhattacharya, S. Niyati, and R. Vijayamba presented the findings. view event

Building Agricultural and Rural Resilience

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

The annual public lecture of Foundation for Agrarian Studies, “Building Agricultural and Rural Resilience,” was delivered by Professor Shenggen Fan, Former Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). view event

Impact of Covid-19 on Food Security

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

The Covid-19 pandemic has further worsened the situation with regards to food and nutrition security. The worsening crises of unemployment and declining incomes along with the rising difficulty in accessing agricultural markets has widened pre-existing gaps. The speakers for the webinar were V. Sridhar, Abhijit Sen, Kalyani Ranghunathan, and Madhura Swaminathan. view event

Safe, Affordable, Nutritious Food Year Round: Global Aspirations to Local Application for Nutrition

Roundtable | 2020 International Borlaug Dialogue

Recognizing the global call to achieve safe, affordable, nutritious food year-round, our food systems must deliver on multiple fronts; delivering nutrition is non-negotiable. While we must address needs at the global level, we also must focus on national and subnational efforts to deliver nutrition interventions at the local level. The most vulnerable individuals, including pregnant and lactating women and children in the first 1,000 days of life, must be at the core of policies reducing under-nutrition. Sustainable food systems also are non-negotiable. This roundtable will consider the trade-offs between different diets that must address these issues to fill significant and diverse nutrition gaps. view event video

Inauguration of the Pandemic Studies Unit

Webinar by Foundation for Agrarian Studies

The inaugural seminar for the FAS-Pandemic Studies Unit was inaugurated by Jakob Littmann, followed by brief presentations by Madhura Swaminathan, R. Ramakumar, and Deepak Johnson. A Panel discussion on Agriculture Policy in the Time of a Pandemic, chaired by Vijoo Krishnan and Aparajita Bakshi and Sudha Narayanan as panelists was held after the presentations. view event

Global Crisis – Global Solidarity #7: Kerala’s Communists against Corona

Audio interview by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Discussion on Kerala’s handling of the pandemic, and Kerala’s history that lead to this capacity with V. K. Ramachandran. view event

Way Forward: Covid-19 and Indian Agriculture

Webinar by Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung- South Asia, in collaboration with Focus on the Global South, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Living Farms and Newsclick

Madhura Swaminathan, Debjeet Sarangi, and Ranjani Basu discuss the impact of Covid 19 and the lockdown on rural India. view event