INTERNATIONAL SRI RESEARCH SEMINAR ON RECENT Changes in Rice Production and Rural Livelihoods: New Insights on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a Socio-Technical Movement in India


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Selected Papers, Conference Publications, and Posters of the Research Team of "SRI as a Socio-Technical Movement in India".

 

PAPER

  • Sen, D. and Maat, H. (2014): “Reorganizing Padiyals and Din Bar under System of Rice Intensification: Insights from Mountain Farms of Uttarakhand, India”, paper to be presented at 14th General Conference on Responsible Development in a Polycentric World, Bonn, 23-26 June 2014.

  • Sabarmatee (2014): "Opportunity missed again for public investment on agricultural labourers in the new production paradigms: Revelations from grassroots level realities from Odisha, India ", paper to be submitted at "“Responsible Development in a Polycentric World”, 14th General conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Gustav-Stresemann Institute, Bonn, Germany, 23-26, June 2014

  • Shambu Prasad, C. and Sen, D. (2014): “Exploring Diversity, Networks and Knowledge Regimes: Transitions and System Building in SRI in India”, paper presented at International Workshop on System Innovation towards Sustainable Agriculture (SISA-2), Paris, 19-21 May, 2014.

  • Sen, D., Maat, H. and Glover, D. (2014): “The farm field as the source of social formation: Seeds, seeding and seed nurseries of rice farms in Uttarakhand, India”, paper presented at WASS PhD day, Wageningen University, 8 May, 2014

  • Sabarmatee (2014): “Beyond tools and schedules: understanding dynamics of weeder in SRI taking cases from Odisha, India”, paper presented at WASS PhD day, Wageningen University, 8 May, 2014

  • Sabarmatee (2014): “Technological transformations, gender and labouring bodies: Exploring socio-technical interactions in System of Rice Intensification (SRI) taking cases from Odisha, India”, paper presented at “Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies”, STS Conference Graz 2014; Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria, 5-6 May 2014

  • Glover, D (2014): "Of yield gaps and yield ceilings: Making plants grow in particular places". Geoforum 53, pp 184-194, May 2014 [CLICK here]

  • Shambu Prasad, C. (2014): “Creative dissent: Linking vulnerability and knowledge in India”. In Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance. Anique Hommels, Wiebe Bijker, and Jessica Messman, eds. Boston: MIT Press.

  • Shambu Prasad, C. (2014): "Revisiting Science’s Social Contract", Seminar. 654, February. Special issue on “State of Science”. [CLICK here]

  • Sen, D (2012): “The shaping and reshaping of farming practices: The case study of System of Rice Intensification in Uttarakhand” paper presented at Altering Rural Landscapes: Structures, Institutions and Households, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu Workshop, July 12-13, 2012.

  • Chopra, R. and Sen, D. (2013): Golden wheat becomes more golden: Extending SRI to Wheat, LEISA India, Volume 15, No. 1, pp. 30-32. [CLICK here]

  • Shambu Prasad, C. and B C Barah (2013): "Upscaling SRI: Unpacking Innovation, Investments and Institutions". LEISA India, Volume 15, No. 1, pp. 16-19. [Click here]

  • Sen, D. (2013):“Re-innovating of System of Rice Intensification (SRI): A Technographic study of rice farming in Uttarakhand, India”, paper presented at Knowing, Making, Governing, Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network, Biennial Conference, National University of Singapore, 15-17 July 2013.

  • Sabarmatee (2013):“Beyond stereotypes – Understanding gender dynamics of weeder use in System of Rice intensification (SRI): Cases from Odisha, India”, paper presented at  Knowing , Making, Governing; Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network, Biennial Conference 2013; National University of Singapore, Singapore, 15-17 July 2013

  • Shambu Prasad, C. T M Thiyagarajan, O P Rupela, A K Thakur and G V Ramanjanequlu (2012). “Contesting agronomy through creative dissent: Experiences from India”. In Jim Sumberg and John Thompson, eds. Contesting Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World. London: Routledge and Earthscan series on sustainability.

  • Sabarmatee (2012): "Techno-gender issues in changing rural landscape: insights from System of Rice Intensification in Odisha". Rural Agrarian Studies Group and Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India, 12-13 July 2012

  • Sen, D (2012): “The shaping and reshaping of farming practices: The case study of System of Rice Intensification in Uttarakhand” paper presented at Altering Rural Landscapes: Structures, Institutions and Households, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu Workshop, July 12-13, 2012

  • Glover, D (2012): "Reply to Comment to: 'The System of Rice Intensification: Time for an empirical turn". NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 59 (1-2), pp 61-62, March 2012 

  • Glover, D ( 2011): "Science, practice and the System of Rice Intensification in Indian agriculture". Food Policy 36 (6), pp 749-755, December 2011.

  • Berkhout, E., Glover, D (2011): "The evolution of the System of Rice Intensification as a Socio-technical Phenomenon". A Report to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, NL., April 2011 [CLICK here] 

  • Glover, D (2011): "A System Designed for Rice? Materiality and the Invention/Discovery of the System of Rice Intensification". East Asian Science, Technology and Society 5 (2), pp 217-237, February 2011 [CLICK here]

  • Glover, D (2011): "The System of Rice Intensification: Time for an empirical turn". NJAS-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 57 (3-4), pp, 217-224., February 2011 [CLICK here]

  • Sabarmatee, Shambu Prasad, C.  (2010):“Revisiting labour productivity and subsistence: Insights from System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Orissa”, paper presented at  Rural labourers in Neo-liberal India; XIMB, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India,& York University, Toronto, Canada; XIMB, Bhubaneswar, India, 18-19 December 2010

POSTER

  • Sen, D. and Shambu Prasad, C. (2013): “Role of Management in Rice Farming: Recent evidence from the Mountain Farms of Uttarakhand” poster presented at Association of Rice Research Workers (ARRW) Golden Jubilee International Symposium, Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India, 02-05, March 2013 [DOWNLOAD PDF]

  • Sabarmatee, Shambu Prasad, C.  (2013): “Understanding drudgery in rice farming using an innovative and participatory tool: Rapid Comparative Pain Assessment (RaCoPA)”, Poster presented at  “Sustainable Rice Production and Livelihood Security: Challenges and Opportunities”; Association of Rice Research Workers (ARRW) Golden Jubilee International Symposium, Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India, 02-05, March 2013 [DOWNLOAD PDF]

  • Adusumilli, R., Sen, D., Sabarmatee, Shambu Prasad, C., Rob Schipper and Raj Kumar Kumawat (2013): “New paradigms in sustainable intensification for food security: Differentiated agronomies in the System of Rice Intensification in India” poster presented at First International Conference on Global Food Security, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 29 Sept -2 October 2013. [DOWNLOAD PDF]

  • Harrot Maat and Dominic Glover (2013): "Intensifying the 'lazy man's crop': Lessons from the History of Rice Research and Development" poster presented at First International Conference on Global Food Security, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 29 Sept -2 October 2013.  [DOWNLOAD PDF]

  • Sen, D. and Shambu Prasad, C. (2013): “Adapting agronomic management practices for enhancing rice yields: The spread of SRI practices in mountain farms of Uttarakhand, India”, poster presented at First International Conference on Global Food Security, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 29 Sept -2 October 2013. [DOWNLOAD PDF]

TALKS

  • Shambu Prasad, C (2014): "Agricultural Transformations: Some Insights on Agency and Innovation from SRI in India". Talk at South Asia Program, Cornell University, April 23, 2014

  • Shambu Prasad, C: (2014): "Uprooting rice science: Scientific Controversies and SRI". Talk at Science Studies Research Group, Cornell University, March 4, 2014

  • Shambu Prasad, C: (2014): "Building a Research Community: Analysis of Journal Articles on SRI in India". Talk at Cornell University organized by International Programs – College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (IP-CALS) & SRI Rice, Jan 28, 2014

  • Shambu Prasad, C., Debashish Sen and Sabarmatee: (2013): "Transformations in Agriculture: Understanding Agency and Innovation in SRI in India" presented at workshop on “Cultivating Futures: Ethnographies of Alternative Agricultures in (South) Asian Landscapes of Crisis”, Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Dec 12-14, 2013

PROJECT - SRI AS A SOCIAL TECHNICAL SYSTEM