🌾📊India’s food grain scenario showcases the interplay between rising production along with evolving consumption patterns, writes Kulvinder Singh in our recent analysis on India's cereal consumption patterns Read: ceda.ashoka.edu.in/growing-more-e…

Our review (w Amrita Datta) of Chetan Choithani's book on 'Migration, Food Security and Development' in Bihar is now out in Gender & Development! The book is contributing to an imp gap in the literature. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Cambridge University Press #EconTwitter #Migration #FoodSecurity #Bihar

Kunal Munjal ( Kunal Munjal ), a long-standing research collaborator with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies; along with Amrita Datta (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Department, IIT Hyderabad) recently published a book review in the latest issue of Gender and Development

A fungal disease has hit the most widely sown sugarcane variety in Uttar Pradesh, threatening the country’s sugar production Shagun reports from western UP downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/st…

Pest attacks have intensified with a rise in extreme weather events, affecting prod of our staple food. Since last 2 yrs west UP has been massively hit by red rot disease in sugarcane. After successive losses in sugar, farmers this year have shifted a lot of their area to poplar

A fungal disease has hit the most widely sown sugarcane variety in Uttar Pradesh, threatening the country’s sugar production. Read details here: downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/st… #Cooperative #sugarcane #Farmers

Down To Earth’s ( Down To Earth ) report Stem the Rot cites our collaborator Kunal Munjal's ( Kunal Munjal ) research on U.P.’s sugarcane crisis. Published in the Review of Agrarian Studies ( Review of Agrarian Studies ) (14,2), it highlights declining output, mill closures, and a

Sugarcane expansion in Uttar Pradesh: - Led by the “wonder variety” Co 0238. - Introduced in 2013–14 in 3% of the area sown with sugarcane. - Area expanded to 87% in 2020–21, displacing varieties such as Co S767, Co S92423, and Co S8436. Source: Research article by Kunal

Nikhil Dey and Rakshita Swamy The Hindu, 19/03/2025

‘Wonder’ #sugarcane #variety 0238: - Led Sugarcane expansion in Uttar Pradesh. - Introduced in 2013–14 in 3% of the area sown with sugarcane. - Area expanded to 87% in 2020–21. - Displacing varieties such as Co S767, Co S92423, and Co S8436. #sugarcane #variety #sugar

We are happy to announce that the Foundation for Agrarian Studies will be holding an “International Conference on Agrarian Change”, from November 6 through 9, 2025, that will take stock of current thinking and scholarship on rural change. Learn more about the conference:

#ArunaRoy & the MKSS - Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan watches a historic PC by the #IndiaAlliance demanding repeal of a "devastating" provision of #DPDPA that "at a stroke" destroys the #RTIAct . More than 120 #MPs from more that 10 parties have demanded #SaveRTI #SaveFreedomOfExpression #SaveDemocracy

My latest piece, on why the crisis in the bond markets, triggered by Trump's tariff tantrum, undermines the dollar's hegemony thefederal.com/the-federal-sp…

Most Gujjars of J&K are no longer nomads engaged in shepherding. Dhaar Mehak M. (Islamic University of Science & Technology-IUST JK ) writes in RAS 15,1 based on her extensive state-wide field survey (Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) ): ras.org.in/?Article=gujja…. “The Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir are no longer a nomadic community, their needs have

#callforpapers How has the reversal of poverty reduction due to the pandemic affected the lives and livelihoods of the rural working poor? In what ways can we understand poverty and deprivation in a broader sense, not just in terms of income but also access to land, housing,

Ritam Dutta (Ritam, ISI, MSSRF) looks at financial inclusion in two villages of Uttar Pradesh: ras.org.in/index.php?Arti…. While government schemes to boost financial inclusion and access since 2005 have brought dividends, women and people of oppressed castes continue to

Excited to speak at NIAS Bengaluru India about my field-based research in #UttarPradesh on how changing dynamics in #sugarcane commercialisation are reshaping rural lives and #inequality. 📅 12th Sept 2025 (Friday) 🕓 4:00 – 5:30 pm 📍 NIAS, IISc Campus, Bengaluru #Agrarian #econtwitter

Happening tomorrow! Friends in Bangalore are welcome to join.