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1 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Name: RAJESWARI S. RAINA 2. Date of Birth: 10, September, 1962. Family status: Married. Children: One 3. Permanent Address: D/o Mr.S.K.R. Nair, Kaliyal, Russelpuram P.O., Balaramapuram, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, India. Phone: 0471- 2400 015 Current Address: B # 529 Paschimabad Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067 Phone: 011-26742825 91-9810956469 4. Current Employment November1992 till June 2005 and Nov 2009 till date Designation Principal Scientist Affiliation National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, (NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Road, Pusa, New Delhi- 110 012, India. Phone - 011-25843102 Fax : 011-25846044 Email : [email protected] [email protected] 5. Previous Employment June 2005-Nov 2009 Designation Senior Fellow Affiliation Centre for Policy Research Dharma Marg,Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110 021 January 1987
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CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Name: RAJESWARI S. RAINA 2. Date of Birth: 10, September, 1962. Family status: Married. Children: One 3. Permanent Address: D/o Mr.S.K.R. Nair, Kaliyal, Russelpuram P.O., Balaramapuram, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, India. Phone: 0471- 2400 015 Current Address: B # 529 Paschimabad Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067 Phone: 011-26742825 91-9810956469 4. Current Employment November1992 till June 2005 and Nov 2009 till date

Designation Principal Scientist Affiliation National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, (NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Road, Pusa, New Delhi- 110 012, India. Phone - 011-25843102 Fax : 011-25846044 Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

5. Previous Employment June 2005-Nov 2009 Designation Senior Fellow Affiliation Centre for Policy Research

Dharma Marg,Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110 021

January 1987

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Agricultural Officer, Grade II Kerala Agricultural Extension Project (KAEP) Office, Palghat Division, Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala, India 6. Educational Qualifications: A. Ph.D. (Economics) awarded by the Kerala University in December 1994.

Ph.D.dissertation: The Organization of Agricultural Research in India: An Economic Analysis of Technology Generation, 1860-1990. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

B. M.Sc.(Ag.). degree awarded in 1987, in Agricultural Economics and Marketing Management, at the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,

Coimbatore. First Division with an O.G.P.A. of 4.00 / 4.00. B.Sc. (Ag.). degree awarded in 1984, in Agricultural Sciences, at the College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Trichur. First Division with an O.G.P.A. of 3.82 / 4.00. Pre-Degree Course. Qualified in 1980, in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, at the Government College for Women, University of Kerala, Trivandrum. First Division with 75.1 per centage marks. 7. Duties and Responsibilities:

Research Main theme: Innovation, S&T policy, governance and social change Area: Agricultural and Rural Development

Sub-themes: 1. Innovation policy for rural development 2. Innovation systems and capacities in agriculture –

-NRM and biosciences 3. Evaluation methods, cultures, capacity building 4. Institutional learning and change 5. Institutional/evolutionary economics

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Specific sub-sectors studied: 1. Post-harvest innovations, natural resource management, soil sciences, water, rural energy, agricultural biotechnology, biodiversity, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, pulses& oilseeds. 2. Organization of agricultural research, institutional reform, community based food systems, gender relationships in innovation, agri-business, process documentation and learning, innovation policy.

Services: 1. Policy analysis/advocacy and Evaluation 2. Networking/Building partnerships in innovation 3. Lectures/Workshops/Other assignments Main clients: Policy makers, Professional associations, National and international donor agencies, NGOs, Private sector firms, Networks, Research organizations, Scientists, Farmers organizations.

7. A. Research Projects Projects On-going: 1. “Scaling-up the Rural Enterprise”, an Indo-UK collaborative research project on

Bridging the Urban Rural Divide (BURD), in collaboration with Centre for Technology and Development (CTD), New Delhi, IIT-Mumbai, Imperial College, London, University of Nottingham, and Swansea University. Sponsored by DST (Government of India) and EPSRC (Government of UK), (2012-15).

2. “Policy and Institutional Support for Organic Agriculture: Enabling pathways for Inclusive Sustainable Development,” in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute. Sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DoAC), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India (2012-14).

Projects completed:

1. “Innovation Systems for Inclusive Development: Lessons from Rural China and

India, (SIID)” In collaboration with Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, and the Central University of Hyderabad, and Chinese collaborators headed by National Institute of Innovation Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou. Sponsored by the Innovation, Policy and Science theme of IDRC, Canada (2009-2012), hosted in Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

2. “Policies and Institutions – the architecture of S&T for development in South Asia,” in-house (OLP) project, in collaboration with colleagues in NISTADS and other Indian and South Asian institutes, approved by the Management Committee in NISTADS (2010-12).

3. “Development Policy and Science: Towards an Agricultural Science Policy in India”, sponsored by NCAP (NAIP-ICAR), as part of the V-PAGe project under NAIP (World Bank-ICAR), May 2011 to Dec 2011.

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4. “Economics of Agricultural Research and Extension”, a chapter for the ICSSR Social Science Survey 2010-11, sponsored by the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi (2010-11).

5. Report on “Peak Oil, Agricultural Production and Trade,” for the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin and MISEREOR, Berlin, as part of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue conducted by HBF, sponsored by the European Union (2009)

6. “Fostering Bio-Innovation in Asia: Ways Forward. A research support strategy for IDRC Asia,” for the Innovation, Technology, Society theme. (Sponsored by IDRC, Canada, (Singapore Office)2007)

7. “Poverty impact pathways and livelihoods patterns in the Indo-Gangetic Plains – A Synthesis of Lessons for Priority Setting in the Rice Wheat Consortium, CIMMYT-IRRI,” (Sponsored by CIMMYT, New Delhi, December 2005-January 2007)

8. “New insights into promoting rural innovation: Learning from civil society organizations about the effective use of innovation in development,” In collaboration with UNU/INTECH, CRISP, NCAP, and Livelihood Services. (Sponsored by UNU/INTECH, 2004-2006)

9. “Institutions for poverty reduction: understanding and enabling institutional changes that promote pro-poor post-harvest innovation.” In collaboration with Centre for Technology and Development, New Delhi, UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, and in partnership with other relevant organizations/consultants. (Sponsored by Natural Resources International, UK, 2005)

10. “Institutional Learning and Change: A Capacity Development Approach to Exploring and Strengthening post harvest innovation systems in South Asia,” In collaboration with NCAP (ICAR), ICRISAT, Univ. of Strathclyde, and Livelihod Solutions, Ltd. (Sponsored by NR International, DFID, 2003 to 2005)

11. “Agricultural science and the environment: towards institutional reform”. (In-house research project, completed in NISTADS, 2004)

12. “Ecological Economics for Sustainable Agriculture: Valuation indicators for Evaluation of Soil Science Research in India.” (Sponsored project completed in NISTADS–funded by the National Agricultural Technology Project, ICAR- World Bank, 2001-2004.

(project details prior to 2000-01 can be mailed on request) 7. B. Services/ assignments: Secretary, Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) 2014-2016. (www.ecoinsee.org) Member Expert Committee for a New Initiative in “Technology application for livelihood improvement of Scheduled Caste Population (Talim-Sc)” under the Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development (SEED) programme of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. New Delhi, for the period Jan 2013 – 2016.

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Joint Lecture, with Prof. Gu Shulin and Prof Susan Cozzens, on “Inclusive Innovation – Current Trends and Future Research” for Ph.D. students, at the CICALICS Academy, NIIM, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 28-30 August 2016 Member of the Board and Executive Committee of SRUTI – Society for Rural Urban and Tribal Initiative, New Delhi. (www.sruti.org.in) Advisor to the POWA (Mobilizing Political Will for ODA in Agriculture) project of Welthungerhilfe, Bonn, and the India team of the POWA project, 2014. Presented the “Berlin Memorandum on Sustainable Livelihoods for Smallholders” at the Conference on “Setting the Course for a World without Hunger – North-South Dialogue on the Role of the G7” February 4th. 2015, at the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, and participated in a meeting with German Parliamentarians, on ways of supporting smallholder agriculture in the Global South, February 5th 2015, at the Reichstag, Berlin. Two meetings attended, documents reviewed, (i) May 5th -7th ,2014 on “Small farmers and the Demand for Increased Agricultural ODA – What do we want from the G8”, at Zorba the Buddha, New Delhi, organized by Living Farms and Welthungerhilfe, (ii) 24th June 2014, “Quo vadis G8? Landwirtschaft fur Ernahrungssicherung” panel to German Parliamentarians and the Chancellor’s Sherpa, at Habel Weinkultur, Berlin. Comments and responses to the GM Futuros Project Workshop on “A new approach to governing GM crops? Global lessons for the UK”, organized by Durham University, at The Royal Society, London, 13th June 2014. Consultant to FAO (UN) for the Country Programming Framework. Prepared the paper on “Rainfed agriculture for an egalitarian and sustainable future: an input to FAO’s Country Programming Framework for India,” which was accepted as a key component of FAO-Government of India strategy for India 2013-17, 10 days during Feb-April 2013. Consultant to Villgro, “Policies, practices and the evolution of social entrepreneurship in India” for the book on Social Innovation X Social Entrepreneurship: Building a Better Ecosystem, being edited by Jessica Seddon, March-July 2013. Addressed and participated in the public Consultation on the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), part of the NAPCC, organized by ASHA, Beyond Copenhagen, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jathha (Delhi), Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (Raj), Humanity (Jharkhand), Kisan Seva Sangh (Rajasthan), PAIRVI, South Asia Dialogue on Ecological Democracy (Delhi), UDI (Uttarakhand) and Oxfam India, in the Deputy Chairman’s Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi on 11th March, 2013. Organized and conducted the “Research Capacity Development Workshop on Innovation for Inclusive Development,” for Ph.D. students, at the CDEIS, Punjabi University, Patiala. This was organized with the support of all the GLOBELICS scholars participating in the International Conference on “Development and Innovation in the Emerging Economies” in collaboration with the SIID project, CPR New Delhi, sponsored by IDRC, Canada. (see www.siid.org.in for report)

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Addressed and participated in collaboration with Prof. Sukhpal Singh, IIM-Ahmedabad., in a day long brainstorming on “Local agriculture and policy issues”, organized by farmers organizations in Sirsa, hosted by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirsa, Haryana, 19th Nov. 2012. Chaired and discussed the ‘Need to conceptualize and promote a common framework for South-South technological learning,’ at the Launch Workshop on UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2012, organized by RIS, New Delhi, amd UNCTAD, Geneva, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2nd Nov. 2012. Lecture on “Decentralized Innovation Capacities for Agricultural Development in India,” to the Training Programme on Multi-disciplinary perspectives on Science and Technology, at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc Campus, Bangalore, 28th September 2012. Member of the Jury, Georgescu-Roegen award, instituted in honour of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, by TERI, and launched on 22 August 2012. Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) for the Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development (SEED) programme of the DST, Ministry of Sceince and Technology, Govt. of India, 2011-2014. Member, O&M Programme Committee (O&MPC) under the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), ICAR-NAIP (IBRD), to assess and approve O&M sub-projects, and approve work plans, guide and overview the progress of the sub-projects under O&M component of the NAIP, since July 2011. Member, Working Group on Agricultural Biotechnology for the Twelfth Five Year Plan, State Planning Board, Government of Kerala, August- October 2011. Presented and wrote sections on institutional reform and research protocols for peasant friendly agricultural biotechnology in Kerala. Lectured on South Asian Agriculture: Knowledge and Development Debates, as part of the course on Challenge of the Balance: Learning the policies, practices and politics of environmental management in India, offered to international students and young researchers, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 7th August 2012. Resource Person at the two day Brainstorming and Consultation for TERI University’s Proposed Centre for Sustainability Science, organized by TERI University, New Delhi, 14-15 March 2012. Member, Working Group on Management of Natural Resources and Rainfed Farming, for the Twelfth Five Year Plan of the Government of India (2012-17), Planning Commission, March –September, 2011. Editorial Board – scientific and technical content, Journal of Innovation and Development, Routledge, India.

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Expert, at the Consultation on Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) on the EU-India FTA with a focus on the Right to Food, organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, India, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 11-12 April 2011. Researcher- invited contribution to ICSSR Social Sciences Survey (Economics), 2011 - on Agricultural Research and Extension, ICSSR, New Delhi. Dec. 2010-March 2011. Lecture delivered on “Institutional reform for Inclusive Agricultural Development“ as part of the Training Programme on “Institutional Change for Inclusive Agricultural Growth” at the Division of Agricultural Economics, IARI, New Delhi, 7th March 2011. Member, Civil Society Consultation on “Regenerating Natural Resources and Rural Livelihoods in Rainfed Areas of India: Priorities for the 12th Five year Plan,” Organized by WASSAN, on behalf of civil society coalitions, sponsored by the Planning Commission, Government of India, Hyderabad, 15-16 December 2010. Chaired the Session on Soil Health Management – Support Systems and Policies, and responded to “Observations from social audits and inferences” by Gopikrishna S. R., at the National Workshop on Soil Health Management and Support Systems, organized by Greenpeace India, Constitution Club, New Delhi, 13 December 2010. Referee, select papers submitted for presentation at the GLOBELICS Conf 2010, to be held in Malaysia, 1-3 Nov. 2010. Reviewer of the Report on Role or Private Sector and Centre-State relations in Agriculture,prepared by Yes Bank and the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP-ICAR), 24th August 2010. “South Asian agriculture: Knowledge and Development Debates,” lecture delivered to the CSE course on Policies and Practices- the Environment and Development in South Asia, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 17 July 2010. “Science, Politics and the Agricultural Revolution”, lecture delivered to the CSE course on Environment, Knowledge and Development, CSE, New Delhi 4 June 2010. Resource Person, Brainstorming on India’s Nutrient Based Subsidy Policy for Fertilizers, organized by Greenpeace India, 3rd April 2010, YWCA, New Delhi. Resource person at the UNESCO-NISTADS Expert Consultation on the Desirability of a Declaration on the Ethical Principles Related to Climate Change Policies, organized by UNESCO and NISTADS, IIC, New Delhi, 29-30 March 2010 “Policy making and policy processes in India,” presentation and discussion with IDRC and DFID teams on problem-oriented policy clusters, UK High Commission, New Delhi, 25th February 2010.

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Member, Governing Body, CAPART (Centre for People’s Action and Rural Technology), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, August 2009-2013. Resource person and panelist, at the EcoFair Trade Conference, EcoFair Rules! The new role of agricultural trade within the conflict area of the climate, food and economic crises, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin, January 12th 2010. Lectured on (i) agricultural innovation systems in India, and (ii) supporting and enabling rural innovation, as part of the week long course on Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy (DEIP), offered by UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, CDS, Trivandrum and NISTADS, New Delhi, to mid-career S&T management and innovation professionals, from 2nd -7th February 2009, New Delhi. Member, Advisory Board, for the project on “Enabling Bio-innovations for Poverty Reduction in Asia” co-ordinated by the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (2008-2011) Resource person and expert at the National Consultation on Conservation Agriculture, orgnanized by the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP) and the Professional Alliance for Conservation Agriculture (PACA), at the National Agricultural Science Centre, New Delhi, 12th December 2008. Member, Working Group on Knowledge Applications in Agriculture, of the National Knowledge Commission of the Government of India, December 2007-August 2008. Resource person, Co-ordinating Lead Author (ESAP- Chapter 4), and author of ESAP Summary for Decision Makers, and IAASTD Synthesis Report, for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Sub-Global assessment in the East-South Asia and Pacific region, November 2005-November 2007. Member, Task Force on Biodiversity & Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for the Environment & Forests Sector for the Eleventh Five year Plan. Planning Commission of the Government of India, August-October 2006, Panning Commission: New Delhi. Resource person to lead the VIGYAN PRASAR Satellite network Group Discussion on “Agricultural Biotechnology: Bane or Boon”, with stakeholders and scientists on satellite network from Bhubaneswar, Shimla, Pondicherry, 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM, 7th September 2006, Vigyan Prasar office, New Delhi. Resource person at the Roundtable on The fabric of Cotton: seeds, farmers and textiles. What should be India’s cotton agenda?organized by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the National Commission on Farmers and the Centre for Science and Environment, July 10, 2006, Committee Room 1, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi. Discussant /panelist at the Expert Workshop on Innovation Systems in Agriculture, World Bank, June 12 2006, World Bank, Washington, D.C.

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Author and member of the Scenario Planning Team, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), and presented “Scenario Planning to Guide Agricultural Innovation in India” at the ARD, World Bank, June 9 2006, World Bank, Washington D.C. Resource person commenting on the “Decline of the peasantry” in Eric Hobsbawm’s War, Peace and Hegemony at the beginning of the 21st Century, at the Symposium organized by the Book Review Literary Trust, 9-12 February 2006. Resource person and Consultant for the “Scenario Planning exercise for the pre-project phase of the National Agricultural Innovation Project” (NAIP – ICAR/World Bank), Gurgaon, 5-7 July 2005. External expert / Resource person at the CGIAR Systems Priority meetings, on “Improved Production and Processing Sysetms for High-Value Commodities” held at FAO, CGIAR, 17th-18th January 2005. Participated and helped organize the “Capacity Development Workshop on market Skills for Rural Value Added Products” in the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), in collaboration with NCAP (ICAR) and TIDE (Bangalore), at CPCRI, Kasargode, Kerala, on the 27th-28th October, 2004. Resource person and participant at the “Awareness Campaign on Environment Friendly Technologies for Rural Development through womens Self Help Groups”, organized by Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE) in Kasargode district, Kerala, on the 26th October 2004. Resource person in the “Capacity Development workshop on rural innovation systems- emphasizing the post-harvest sector” organized by CPHP South Asia, CRISP, NCAP, NISTADS, and ILRI, at ICRISAT, Patancheru, from 22nd-29th November 2004. South-Asia Co-ordinator - of ResNet SA, an interactive research network on water in South Asia, focusing on integration of knowledge, policy and practice in water management and related sectors. The service profile is to source, mobilize, raise funds for, and establish interactive policy research networks on relevant water issues in South Asian countries. Advisor and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) partner with Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture (CASA), New Delhi, in CASA’s in-house project on “Systems Analysis and Implementation: Agro-forestry, livestock,and horticulture in the Kandi region in India, 2003-2005. Lectured on “Impact Assessment of NRM research: Opportunities for institutional learning,´at the National Training Program on Agricultural Research Prioritization and Impact Assessment, 4-13 February 2004, at the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), New Delhi.

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Resource person for design of experiments for children on “Water” the theme for the Indian Children’s Science Congress, organized by the National Commission on Science and Technology Studies (NCSTD), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, organized at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, October 2003. Consultant for Evaluation - to DFID (India), New Delhi, on “Mid Term Evaluation of Indo-U.K. Oilseeds–II Project,” 9th to 26th November, 2002. Visiting Fellow at National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), Paris, to collaborate in a research programme on the “WTO and the green house effect negotiations – developing country perspectives,” from 20th May to 3rd July 2002. Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar “Achieving Food Security Through Community-Based Food Systems,” Session # 398 Salzburg Seminar, 1-8th May 2002. Salzburg, Austria. Evaluation and capacity building advisor - consultant to TIDE on “Capacity building and evolution of business strategies: from women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) to women’s Micro Enterprises,” (as part of the ETC, Netherlands, sponsored project on Technical training and employment generation for women) March-May 2002. Conducted a Training in “Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation” for project staff in development projects, in the Institute for Development Communication (IDC) Field Office, Rahepwa Village, Mewat, Haryana, on the 19th and 20th August 2001. Conducted a Training in “Systems Concepts” for the field staff of the Integrated Participatory Seasonal Observation Systems facility in the Institute for Development Communication (IDC)field office Rahepwa, Mewat, Haryana, on the 29th and 30th November 2000. Received the Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant for 2000. Worked in the Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York, from 30th October-14th November 2000. The records collected were used for a paper on “Field perceptions and distinctions between institutional and organizational issues in agricultural science”. Co-ordinated, with Prof. G.S. Bhalla, the “Integrated Participatory Seasonal Observation Systems” facility at Rahepwa village, in Mewat, Haryana State, India. The IPSOS project was implemented by the Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh from October 1999 to March 2002. Presented and discussed the ‘Comments on the Vision Document on Water for Food and Rural Development’, at the Second World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference, the Hague, The Netherlands, 17th-22nd March 2000. Worked as a Swedish Institute Visiting Fellow, on a research report on “Sustainability and Democracy: An Ecological Economics Analysis of Decision-Making in Agricultural Research”, at the Ecological Economics unit, Department of Business Studies and Informatics, Marladalens University, Vasteras, Sweden, from 2nd October – 24th December 1999.

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Resource person for evaluation, in the working group on “Decentralization and programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation: participation”, at the Technical Consultation on Decentralization, December 16th –18th, 1997, held at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, in Rome. Reviewed the Agricultural Research Council of the Government of South Africa, as a member of an international team of evaluators, from 13th- 28th October 1997. The External Review was commissioned by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa. Lectured on “The Evolution of Indian agricultural research system”, at the Training Course on Agricultural Research Evaluation and Impact Assessment, February 13-27, 1996, Centre for Advanced Studies in Agricultural Economics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute: New Delhi. Conducted a review of “Flexible Manufacturing and rural industrialisation in India: An institutional economics perspective” as a Visiting Fellow under the Ph.D. Internship Scheme at the UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, from March -May 1995. Designed and field tested the “Methodology for Decentralized Agricultural Research Priority Setting in the State Agricultural Universities in India”, as a Consultant with the National Agricultural Technology Project, World Bank, New Delhi, June -August 1994. Worked on “Origin of State sponsored research in British and Indian agriculture” as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, January-April 1992. 7.C. Teaching/ Curriculum development “Innovation Systems and Development” Ph.D. Course developed and taught during the 2013-14 first semester, Academy CSIR, at CSIR-NISTADS. “South Asian agriculture- food and environmental security” – lectures delivered in several courses developed and taught by Centre for Science and Enviornment (CSE), New Delhi, for journalists, young researchers and students (2009 onwards). Member of an expert group on “Curriculum and Teaching Resources Support” constituted by CSE, New Delhi, to equip teachers handling the “Environmental Sciences” compulsory course (UGC mandate) for undergraduate students in India (since March 2015). Several projects reviewed for national and international donor agencies. Several research papers refereed for national and international research journals and books, dissertation evaluations.

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8. Research Output: A. Publications A.1. Papers in Journals: Rajeswari S. Raina, Vishwanath Reddy, Kingsley Immanuel and Ramesh Kumar 2014. Funding Decentralized Agricultural Research in India, Yojana, Dec. 2014. pp. Rajeswari S. Raina (2014) “ Beyond Supply Driven Science” Seminar, No. 654. Feb 2014.pp.69-74. Ravindra A. and Rajeswari S. Raina (2012) “Risk and trust: Collectivising private groundwater borewells in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India,” Innovation and Development, Vol. 2 (1): 189-191. Rajeswari S. Raina (2010) “Situating Ethics in Technology and Science,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vo. 45 (23): 25-27 Rajeswari S. Raina (2010) “Warum Halt der Weltagrarbericht das Potenzial der Kleinbauern, den Hunger zu Reduziern, fur so Gross?” Boll Thema, May 2010, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin. Feldman, S., Biggs, S. and Raina, R. (2010) “A Messy Confrontation of a Crisis in Agricultural Science”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45(3):66-71. Rajeswari S. Raina (2009) “Questioning Temperaments in Agricultural Science,” Seminar, No. 597, pp. 50-54. Rajeswari S. Raina and Archita Bhatta (2008) “Policy Bungling: Incentives for Public Sector S&T in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43 (43): 16-19.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2006) “Researching the Drylands,” Seminar, No. 546. August 2006, pp 25-29. Rajeswari S. Raina, Sunita Sangar, Rasheed V. Sulaiman, Andrew J. Hall (2006) “The soil sciences in India: Policy lessons for agricultural innovation” Research Policy, Vol 35 (5): 691-714. Rajeswari S. Raina and Sunita Sangar, (2006) “Confronting complexity: the Evolution of Soil Science Research in India, 1980-2001,” Trends in Soil Science, Bulletin of the Indian Society of Soil Science (ISSS), No. 23. ISSS: New Delhi. Pp. 116-141. Rajeswari S. Raina (2006) “Need for Public Debate – the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative”, Economic and Political Weekly: pp. 1622-1624. .

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Rajeswari S. Raina (2003). “Institutions and organizations: enabling reforms in Indian agricultural research and policy,” International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Vol 2 (2): 97-116. Rajeswari S. Raina (2003) “Disciplines, institutions and organizations: Impact assessments in context,” Agricultural Systems, Vol. 78 (2): 185-212. Rajeswari S. Raina (2003).”Biotechnology in the Indian National Agricultural Research System: A Case for Institutional Reform,” Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, Vol. 5 (3): pp. 27-56. Rajeswari S. Raina (2003). “Innovation Capability for Agricultural biotechnology: Policy Issues,” Biotechnology and Development Monitor.-Jubilee issue. No.50 (3): 29-31. Rajeswari S. Raina and Sunita Sangar (2002) “Water Quality, Agricultural Policy and Science,” Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Vol.14 (4): 109-125. R.S. Raina and I.P. Abrol (2002) “Learning to Change,” (Meeting report) Current Science, Vol. 83 (5): 547-548. Rajeswari S. Raina, (2000) “Water: An agenda for change”, World Affairs, Vol 4 (4): 72-85. Rajeswari S. Raina. (2000) “Countering Seasonal Rural Problems: Integrated Participatory Information System”, Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. 35 (37): 3335-3342. Rajeswari S. Raina. (1999) “Patronage and Evaluation in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research,” Evaluation , Vol. 5 (3): 278-302. Rajeswari S. Raina. (1999). “Professionalisation and Evaluation: The case of Indian agricultural research”, Knowledge, Technology and Policy. Vol. 11 (4): 69- 96. Rajeswari S. Raina. (1997) “Public Patronage and Political Neutrality in Agricultural Research: Lessons from British experience,” the Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.32 (39): 2473-2485. Rajeswari S. (1995). “Agricultural Research Effort: Conceptual Clarity and Measurement”, World Development , Vol. 23(4 ): 617-635. Rajeswari S. (1992). “Teaching of Agricultural Economics in State Agricultural Universities in India: A Comment”, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 47 (1): 117-125. A.2. Books: Raina, R. S. (Ed.) 2015. Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values. Orient Blackswan: New Delhi

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Feldman, S., Nathan, D., Raina, S., and Hong, Y. (2009) Summary for Decision Makers, East-South-Asia and Pacific (ESAP) report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Island Press: Washington, D.C. IAASTD Synthesis Report Team, (2009) Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Island Press: Washington, D.C. Hall, A.J., B. Yoganand, R.V. Sulaiman, Rajeswari S. Raina, C. Shambu Prasad, Guru C. Naik and N.G. Clark (Ed.s) (2004) Innovations in innovation: reflections on partnership, institutions and learning, CPHP South Asia, ICRISAT, and NCAP: ICRISAT, Patancheru and New Delhi. A.3. Chpaters in Books

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. Agriculture and the development burden, in Knut A. Jacobsen (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India, Routledge: London and New York. Pp. 99-117.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. Knowing and Administering Food: How do we Explain Persistence? In Reddy C. S. (Ed.) Food Security and Food Production – Institutional Challenges in Governance Domain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne. pp.11-43

Yulia Egorova, Rajeswari S. Raina and Kamminthang Mantuong, 2015. An Analysis of the GM Crop Debate in India, in Phil Macnaghten and Susana Carro-Ripalda (Eds) Governing Agricultural Sustainability –Global lessons from GM crops, Earthscan- Routledge, London. Pp. 105-135.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. Institutional Rigidities and Impediments – Agricultural research and GM crops in India, in Phil Macnaghten and Susana Carro-Ripalda (Eds) Governing Agricultural Sustainability –Global lessons from GM crops, Earthscan- Routledge, London. Pp. 212-219.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. “Technological and Institutional Change: India’s Development Trajectory in an Innovation Systems Framework”, in Shome, P. and Sharma, P.(Ed.s) Emerging Economies – Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation, Springer: New Delhi. Pp. 329-352.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. “Values Matter” in Raina R. S. (Ed) Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values. Orient Blackswan: New Delhi pp. 1-19.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. “Climate Science, Agriculture and the Policy Juke Box” in Raina R. S. (Ed) Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values. Orient Blackswan: New Delhi pp. 242-259.

Rajeswari S. Raina 2015. “Conclusion – Engaging with the Value Problem” in Raina R. S. (Ed) Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values. Orient Blackswan: New Delhi pp. 260-277.

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Rajeswari S. Raina and K. Mandal (Ed.s) 2014. Section 4- Rural India: S&T for Skills and Employment, in Pohit et al (Ed.s) India S&T Report, (including 23 chapters by 17 authors), Cambridge University –Foundation Press and CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi. pp.410-531.

Rajeswari S. Raina, 2014. “Skills and Employment: The Macro-economic context” in Section No.4. Raina and Mandal (Ed.s) “Rural India: S&T for Skills and Employment”in Pohit et al (Ed.s) India S&T Report, Foundation Press and CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi. Pp.410-414.

Rajeswari S. Raina, 2014. “Service Sector Growth, S&T and Rural Employment”, in Raina and Mandal (Ed.s) “Rural India: S&T for Skills and Employment” in Pohit, S. et al (Eds.) India S&T Report, Foundation Press and CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi.pp. 414-419. Rajeswari S. Raina, 2014. “Agricultural S&T and Extension: Development Services”, in Raina and Mandal (Ed.s) “Rural India: S&T for Skills and Employment” in Pohit etal (Ed.s) India S&T Report, Foundation Press and CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi.pp.427-434. Rajeswari S. Raina, 2014. “S&T Applications in the context of Service Sector Expenditure”, in Raina and Mandal (Ed.s) “Rural India: S&T for Skills and Employment” in Pohit etal (Ed.s) India S&T Report, Foundation Press and CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi. 469-477.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2014) “Understanding Institutions and Cumulative Causation: To Enable Rural Transformation in India,” in Mandal , K., and Kirdina, S. (Eds.), Socio-Economic and Technological Innovations:Mechanisms and Institutions, Narosa:New Delhi. pp. 25-37.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2014) “Double or Green: Towards Green Agro-ecological Revolution”, in Innovation for Sustainable Development, Edited by Jean-Yves Grosclaude, Rajendra K. Pachauri and Laurence Tubiana, AFD, IDDRI and TERI, Paris, New Delhi. pp 67-73.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2012) “Agriculture in the Environment: Are sustainable climate friendly production systems possible in India?” in The Handbook of Climate Change and India, N. Dubash (Ed.), Oxford University Press: New Delhi. Pp. 317-327.

Rajeswari Raina, K. Mandal, M. Rais, K. Joshi and S. Khan (2012) S&T for Rural Development (chapter 5) in India S&T Report, 2010-11, NISTADS: New Delhi. (download at : www.nistads.res)

Rajeswari S. Raina (2011) “’Institutional strangleholds: the evolution of agricultural research in India” in Narayana, D. and Mahadevan R. (Ed.) Shaping India, Routledge, New Delhi, pp.99-123.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2009) “Innovation for eco-friendly development – towards institutional reform in scientific research and policy-making,” in Guimaraes-Perreira and Funtowicz (Eds.) Science for Policy, Oxford University Press: London and New Delhi, pp. 312-327.

Rajeswari S. Raina (2008) “Interactive Policy Research for Rural Innovation,” in Wickremasinghe, S. I. and Gupta, V. K. (Eds.) Science and Technology Policy and Indicators for Development: Perspectives from Developing Countries, NAM S&T Center: New Delhi. Pp. 230-253.

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Mirza, M., Raina, R.S.. Matysek, A. and Ma, S. (2008) Agricultural Change and its Drivers: A regional outlook, in the East-South-Asia and Pacific (ESAP) report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Island Press: Washington, D.C. Rajeswari S. Raina and Rasheed Sulaiman V. (2007) “From technology Development and Dissemination to Learning Approaches: Institutional Change for Rural Development,” in Ballabh, V (Ed.) Institutional Alternatives and Governance in Agriculture, Academic Foundation: New Delhi. Rajeswari S. Raina, Andrew J. Hall and Rasheed V. Sulaiman (2004) “Institutional Learning: From BNF Technologies to BNF Innovation Systems,” in Rachid Serrraj (Ed.) Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation, Oxford and IBH: New Delhi. Pp. 277- 299. Hall A J, Sulaiman R V, Yoganand B, Raina R S, Clark N G, and Naik G. (2003). “Institutional learning and change: towards a capacity- building agenda for research. A review of recent research on Post-harvest innovation systems in South Asia,” in Hall A J, Yoganand B, Sulaiman R V, and Clark N G. (eds.). 2003. Post-harvest innovations in innovation: reflections on partnership and learning. Crop Post-Harvest Programme(CPHP), South Aisa,c/0 international Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, Andhra Pradesh, India: Crop Post-Harvest Programme South Asia. Pages 123- 146. Hall A J, Sulaiman R V, and Raina R S. (2003). “Institutional learning and innovation: origins and implications for future research and capacity building,” in Hall A J, Yoganand B, Sulaiman R V, and Clark N G. (eds.). 2003. Post-harvest innovations in innovation: reflections on partnership and learning. Crop Post-Harvest Programme(CPHP), South Aisa,c/0 international Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, Andhra Pradesh, India: Crop Post-Harvest Programme South Asia. Pages 147-154. Rajeswari S. Raina (2003) “Institutions and organizations: Agricultural policy, research and extension,” in Pal, S., Mruthyunjaya, Joshi, P.K. and Saxena R. (Eds.) Institutional Change in Indian Agriculture, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research: New Delhi. Pp. 205-228. Rajeswari S. Raina (2002) “Agricultural Science and the Social Sciences: An Uneasy Relationship,” in Kumar et al (ed) Behind the Blackboard – Contemporary Perspectives on Indian Education- Vol. II, SFI Publications: New Delhi:176-194. Rajeswari S. Raina and Sunita Sangar (2001) “Ecological Economics for Evaluation of Agricultural Research: The Case of Soil Science Research in India,” in Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), Ecological Economics for Sustainable Development, Academic Foundation: New Delhi. Rajeswari S. Raina (2001) “Institutions and Organizations: Agricultural Policy, Research and Extension”, in Invited papers for the National Seminar on Institutional Change for Greater

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Agricultural Technology Impact, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi. March 13-14, 2001. Rajeswari S. Raina, Anand Sharma and Zia Mohammed, (2000) “Land Information Systems for Livelihood Security”, in CSDMS (Ed.) Proceedings of the National Conference on Land Information System, Center for Spatial Data Management Systems: New Delhi. A.4. Policy Briefs/ Reports / Working Papers: “Food for thought: Policy Options for India’s Food Processing Industry,” ISTIP Policy Bulletin No. 11. CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi. August 2015. “Berlin Memorandum on Sustainable Livelihoods for Smallholders”, Input for the Conference “Setting the Course for a World Without Hunger – North-South Dialogue on the Role of the G7”, prepared as part of a collaborative team, of scientists, civil society organizations and policy makers, from India, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Germany, Bolivia and Peru (www.welthungerhilfe.de) and presented to the German Parliamentarians and other stakeholders in the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 4th February,2015. Rajeswari Raina and Julien Francois Gerber 2014, Report on the “Symposium on Growth, Green Growth or Degrowth? New Critical Directions for India’s Sustainability” submitted to TERI University and NISTADS, as organizers, and Ford Foundation, ICSSR-NRC, and INSEE as sponsors, Dec. 2014. (www.ecoinsee.org) Rajeswari S. Raina, Sunita Sangar and P. Ramasundaram (2014 – forthcoming), Development policy and S&T: Research policy for Indian agriculture, Report submitted to the NCAP (NAIP- VPAGe) project, CSIR-NISTADS: New Delhi.

Rajeswari S. Raina, 2014. Policies and the Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship in India: Tight-rope walk to a potential runway, Villgro Research Paper, Villgro and IDRC: Chennai, India and Canada.

Workshop Proceedings (by the Organizing Committee, I. P. Abrol, B. Venkateswarlu, Peter Kenmore, Rajeswari Raina, A. Ravindra): National Workshop: Rainfed Farming Systems Programme under 12th Five Year Plan – Evolving an Operational Framework, organized by CRIDA and RRA-Network, with support from FAO (UN) and the Planning Commission, Government of India, in CRIDA, Hyderabad, 14-15 May 2013. RRA-Network and CRIDA, Hyderbad.

Rajeswari Raina and Vijaya Shankar P. S. (2011) “Rainfed Agriculture: Enabling New Ruls of the Game,” SIID Policy Options, No.1, December 2011, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

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Rajeswari S. Raina (2011) “Agriculture and Trade after the Peak Oil” EcoFair Trade Dialogue, Discussion Paper, February 2011, Heinrich Boll Foundation and MISEREOR, Berlin.(www.ecofairtrade.org)

SIID Communique (2010) ‘“Inclusion” in Systems of Innovation,’ Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Development, SIID Communique 2., SIID project team, New Delhi, India. SIID Communique (2009) “Do we need Innovation Systems for Rural Development?” Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Development, SIID Communique 1, SIID project team, New Delhi, India Sunita Sangar, R. S. Raina and I. P. Abrol (2006) “Sustainable Agriculture: The role of Professional Associations in the Agricultural Sciences,” Meeting Report, CASA, June 2006. NAIP Scenario Planning Team - Kees van der Heidjen, Rajeswari S. Raina, Suresh Pal, Sachin Chaturvedi, S. Chandrashekhar, Willem Janssen, Eija Pehu. (2006) “Scenario Planning – to guide investments in agricultural innovation in India” for the National Agricultural Innovation Project, World Bank- ICAR, New Delhi. Andy Hall (Ed.) (2005) RIPWiG Reporter, No.1 - Analysis and Comparison of Government Schemes for Rural Development, for Rural innovation Policy Working Group, December 2005. Andy Hall, Rajeswari Raina, Rasheed Sulaiman, Norman Clark, Shambu Prasad and Guru Naik (2005) “Institutional Learning and Change: A review of concepts and principles,” Policy Brief No. 21. May 2005. National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research NCAP(ICAR): New Delhi. Rajeswari S. Raina (2003) “Technological and Institutional Innovations: A Case Study of Pomegranate Production and Marketing” (a case study of micro-irrigation technologies for the rural poor) IDE(I) Report, No. 21, International Development Enterprises (India): New Delhi. Rajeswari S. Raina (2002) “R&D Capability Needs for Ag-Biotech in Developing Countries” in Velho (Ed.) “Agricultural Biotechnology”, Technology Policy Brief No. 2. UNU / INTECH. Maastricht. Rajeswari S. Raina. (2002) “Sustainability and Democracy: An Ecological Economics Analysis of Decision-making in the Agricultural Sciences”. (unpublished monograph under refereeing) forthcoming Research Report No.2, Ecological Economics unit, Malardalens University, Vasteras, Sweden. 2002. Rajeswari S. Raina (2001) “The need for common ethical ground in agro-biotechnology,” Viewpoints in the Science, Technology and Innovation Program of the CID, Harvard University. 5, April 2001. (www.cid.harvard.edu/cidbiotech/comments/comments116.htm) Rajeswari S. Raina. (1999) “Evaluation in Agricultural Research: Ecological Economics for Research Decision-Making”, NISTADS Working Paper, May 1999.

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Sunita Sangar and Rajeswari S. Raina. (1998) “Ex-post evaluation of technologies for the improvement of alkaline soils: some methodological issues” NISTADS Working Paper 1998. NISTADS: New Delhi. Rajeswari S. Raina. (1997) “Professionalization and Evaluation in Indian Agricultural Research”, Discussion Paper, No. 97 - 9, ISNAR: the Hague. December 1997. Rajeswari S. Raina. (1996) “The Evolution of Indian Agricultural Research: Organizational Insights”, Discussion Paper, No.96-2. ISNAR: the Hague. September 1996. Rajeswari S. (1995) “Institutionalization of the State Agricultural University in India: to produce public goods?”, NISTADS Working Paper 1995, NISTADS: New Delhi. Ramasamy, C., K.P.C. Rao, S. Selvarajan, Suresh Pal, and S. Rajeswari. (1994) (mimeo) “Action Plan for Agricultural Research Priority Setting at the Zonal Research Stations”, National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP), The World Bank, New Delhi. September 1994. Rajeswari S. (1994) “Does Indian Agriculture need a Centralized Research System? Issues and Evidences”, NISTADS Working Paper 1994, NISTADS: New Delhi. Rajeswari S. (1987) Performance Analysis of Cashew Industry in Quilon District, Kerala. Unpublished M.Sc. (Ag.) dissertation, submitted to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. B. Papers presented in Seminars / Conferences: “Institutional Innovations and Opportunities for Inclusive Development in India’s Food Processing Industry", paper presented at the CICALICS Workshop on Inclusive Innovation and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies, at the National Institute of Innovation Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 26-27 August 2015. “Agricultural Innovation, Rice and Expertise in India”, paper presented at the Second INDIALICS Conference on "Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Agriculture and Rural Development," organized by INDIALICS, Punjabi University, Patiala, July 28-29, 2015. Panel discussion on “Valuing Variability: Towards Climate Resilient and Sustainable Drylands Development” at the 9th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation, organized by IIED, BRAC, and ACTS, in Nairobi, Kenya. 24-30 April 2015. “From “Looking Up” to “Seeing Through”: Agro-ecological alternatives and formal mainstream pest management” paper presented at the UK-India Agro-Ecology Initiative, meeting-cum-conference of the Agricultural Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society and Society of Agro-ecology, India, at the Centre for Pollination Studies, Calcutta University, 21-24 February 2015.

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Invited Panelist at the “Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) – A Case for Intervention,” the fourth ministerial meeting of Newton Bhabha Fund and UK Science and Innovation Network meeting organized by DST and British Council, New Delhi, Hotel Lalit, 12th February 2015. “Pandora or Cornucopia? Strengthening the interface between science and policy” Paper presented at the International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Foresight, Growth, Roadmaps, Sectoral Impact Assessments and Alliances, organized by Zaheer Science Foundation and UNESCO, at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 27-29 November 2014. “Agronomy and Agrarian Alternatives: The Discipline as Lens”, Paper presented at the Seminar on “Disciplines, Movements and Policies: The Changing relationship between Science, State and Society,” Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla . 24-25 November 2014. (Paper presented over skype with the help of the organizers). “Socializing” scale – Building capacities for sustainable impacts” presented at the UK-India Joint Plenary meetings of the BURD Project, “Scaling the Rural Enterprise”, sponsored by DST (India) and EPSRC (UK), organized by CTD, New Delhi along with partner organizations IIT-Mumbai and CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi, at Hotel Hill Queen, Mussoorie, 8th November 2014. “Social innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Nurturing the institutional sine qua non for the informal sector”, paper presented at the 12th GLOBELICS International Conference, Africa Union Centre, Addis Ababa, 29-31 October 2014. “Agriculture in the Environment: Is climate resilient rainfed agriculture possible?” paper presented at the National Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation in Drought Affected Areas: Policies, Programmes and Traditional Coping Mechanisms, organized by MoEF&CC, Government of India and the United Nations Disaster Management Team, Venue: Hotel Park, New Delhi, : 16 October, 2014 Discussant, for Nina Wormb’s paper Remote sensing and the iconography of the planetary image, at the Workshop on Environmental Humanities and New Ecologies in the 21st century, organized by Shiv Nadar University (SNU) and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden, in SNU, Dadri, 29th September 2014. “Agriculture in Rural Transformation in India and China” paper presented at the International Conference, Juxtapose 2014 – Comparative research, creative collaboration, methodological challenges in contemporary China and India, organized by Wolfson college, Oxford University and School of International Studies, JNU, in JNU, 24-25 September 2014. “Articulating a New Agronomy: Peasants and Contemporary History in Asia”, paper by Rajeswari S. Raina, in the session on Planning for Peasants: Ideologies of Agronomic Science Compared, presented by Prof. Francesca Bray, at the 9th STEP meeting- Science Technology in the European Periphery,Lisbon, 1-3.September 2014.

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“Climate Resilient Agriculture”, paper presented at the Climate Change Advocacy Workshop, organized by OXFAM, India and CECOEDECON, Lucknow 25- 26 June, 2014. “Agronomy, Rice Production and India’s Agricultural Policy – Do Knowledge and Evidence Matter?” Paper presented at the Policy Workshop, in the International Workshop on Recent Changes in Rice Production and Rural Livelihoods: New Insights on the System of Rice Intensification as a Socio-Technical Movement in India, organized by Wageningen University and the National Consortium on SRI, at the NASC, New Delhi, 19-21st June 2014. Invited presenter in the international policy workshop on “A New Approach to Governing GM Crops? Global Lessons for the UK” at the Royal Society in London,- to ‘comment on the institutional and organizational issues in GM governance,’ at this workshop organized by Durham University, Department of Anthropology. 13th June 2014 Invited Panel presentation - Invited to speak on Rational choices, Ethics and S&T, at the Panel on the Book, “Paradoxes of Rationality and Norms of Human Behaviour,” at the Book Launch, organized by the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity and the Office of Public Affairs, Bahai’s of India, 28 March 2014. Invited panel presentation on Ethics in Indian S&T Policy and Practice, at the GEST Conference – International Conference on Ethics, Equity and Inclusion in Science and Technology: Global and Regional Perspectives, organized by RIS for Developing Countries, as part of the EU 7th Framework Programme, at Hotel Ashok, New Delhi. 6-7 March 2014. “Rainfed Agriculture: The Discourse and Evidnece for a Paradigm Shift,” paper presented at the International Workshop on “Cultivating Futures. Ethnographies of Alternative Agricultures in (South) Asian Landscapes of Crisis”, at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies of Heidelberg University, December 12-14, 2013. Two presentations made at the UK-India Joint Plenary meetings of the BURD Project, “Scaling the Rural Enterprise”, Nov. 25-29 2013.

(i) Toolkit – Scaling up the Rural Enterprise, presented at the HCI lab, Swansea, UK (ii) Rural Enterprise in the New Global Economy, presented at the Imperial College,

London Presentations made to the Indo-UK BURD (Bridging the Urban Rural Divide) project team, small rural entrepreneurs, local government officials, and students. On invitation by ICCOA, ”Policies and Investments for Sustainable/ Organic Agriculture: From Central to State Governments”, International Conference on Two Pronged Strategy for Organic Movement: For Sustainability and For Markets, Organized by IFOAM Asia, ICCOA, Dept of Agriculture Government of Karnataka. And Nuremberg Messe, Palace Grounds, Bangalore: 14-16 November 2013. Keynote Address, “Knowing and Administering Food: How do we explain persistence?” delivered at the Two Day National Seminar on Food Security and Food Production: Institutional Challenges

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in the Governance Domain, organized by the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, 31st October and 1st November, 2013. Rajeswari S. Raina and Kasturi Mandal, 2013. Institutional Reform: Enabling S&T and Innovation in Rural India, paper presented by Kasturi Mandal at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, organized by School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, 27-29 September 2013. Invited to Chair, Discuss and Review the IFAD Project at the Workshop on Safeguarding Commons for the Next Generation, organized by Sewa Mandir, at Shilpi Resort, Udaipur, 13-14 September 2013. Policy Options and Investments for Sustainable Development: From Central to State Governments, International Conference on Strategies to Drive Organic Sector Forward: For Sustainability and For Markets, Organized by ICCOA, Horticulture Mission, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum 5-6 Sept 2013. “Norms of Expertise and the supply syndrome: State, science and rice in India”, paper presented at the Panel on “The Social Shaping of Rice Production Technologies: Institutions, Knowledge and Practice,” at the APSTS Biennial Conference Knowing, Making, Governing, at Tembusu College, National University, Singapore, 15-17 July 2013. “Rural Innovation Systems: Learning and Enabling Sutainable Capacities,” Paper presented at the panel on Policy Lessons at the Group Monitoring Workshop & Independent Evaluation of Core-support Groups under Technological Advancement for Rural Areas-TARA, organized by the Division on Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development, Department of Science and Technology, at WWF, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi 6th March 2013. “Institutional immunity: Limiting the scope and space for innovation and development in India” presented at the Conference on The Indian Economy: A Longer and Broader View, organized by Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and NMML, New Delhi, at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 14-15 December 2012. “Towards a Policy Framework for Agricultural S&T in India,” Lead Paper presented in the Agricultural Sciences session presented at the 7th Uttarakhand State Science Congress, Graphic Era University, organized by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, 21-23 November 2012. Two papers presented on: “Policy Capacities for Inclusive Innovation Systems: South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa,” at the Plenary Session: Panel on Inclusive Innovation and Economic Development, organized by the GLOBELICS organizing committee, 9th Nov 2012.

“Political economy and administration of sustainable alternatives in India: the (non)negotiables in STI policies”, at the Post-crisis STI policies for a green and fair economy: comparing approaches in North and South, organized by Adrian Ely, STEPS Cetnre, University of Sussex, 10 Nov. 2012.

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Both at the 10th GLOBELICS International Conference “Innovation and Development: Opportunities and Challenges in Globalization”, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 9-11 Nov. 2012. Organized the SIID Special Session on “Interrogating Innovation Systems: Challenges of the Excluded Rural in India” with five papers, and presented the paper on “Rainfed Agriculture: Policy Learning for Innovation and Development,” sponsored by IDRC, Canada, at the the 10th GLOBELICS International Conference “Innovation and Development: Opportunities and Challenges in Globalization”, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 9-11 Nov. 2012. Two papers presented:

“Policies and processes: Institutional concerns about rural entrepreneurship,” and “Jobs and markets – research questions on farm and non-farm linkages in processing enterprises,” presented at the International Inception Workshop on Scaling-up the Rural Enterprise, and India-team consultations, the Indo-UK collaborative research project on Bridging the Urban Rural Divide (BURD),organized by Centre for Technology and Development (CTD), New Delhi, at Hotel Aketa, Dehradun, 12-14 September 2012. “Innovation systems in and for Indian agriculture” paper presented at the workshop on Mapping the Innovation Landscape: History and Policy Studies of Science and Technology in India, organized by IIT-Delhi and King’s College, London, held at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 25th August 2012. “Agriculture, Policy and Climate Change,” paper presented at the National Workshop on India’s Climate Policy: where do we go from here? Organized by Centre for Development Finance and IIT-Madras, at the India International Centre, new Delhi . 27th July 2012. “Synthesis: Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Development- Lessons from rural China and India,” paper presented at International Workshop on Systems of Innovation and Rural Transformation in China and India, organized by the Centre for Policy Research and India International Centre, in collaboration with NISTADS, CDS, GIDR and Central University of Hyderabad, at the India International Centre, sponsored by IDRC, Canada, in New Delhi 23-24 July 2012. With Chunhui Ye, “Agricultural Innovation and Inclusive Development: Evidence from India and China,” paper presented at the International Workshop on Systems of Innovation and Rural Transformation in China and India, organized by the Centre for Policy Research and India International Centre, in collaboration with NISTADS, CDS, GIDR and Central University of Hyderabad, at the India International Centre, sponsored by IDRC, Canada, in New Delhi 23-24 July 2012. “Land and the Structures of Productive Power: Institutions of Rural Transformation in India,” paper presented at the Seminar on Altering Rural Landscapes: Structures, Institutions and Households, organized by the Annamali University, Department of Economics, and the Agrarian and Rural Studies Network, in Annamalai University, Chidambaram, 12-13 July, 2012.

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“Building innovation ecosystems for inclusive development,” paper presented at the Regional Inclusive Innovation Policy Forum –Asian region, organized by the World Bank Group and the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China, hosted by APFDC, in Hotel Nikko, Beijing, May 23-24, 2012.

“Knowledge landscapes in agriculture: Institutions governing the use and quality of arable land in India,” paper presented at the International Conference on New Questions on Land in India, organized by Yale South Asia, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 28-29 April 2012. “Science, Technology and the Disjuncture between Food and Nutrition Policy, paper presented at the British Academy Seminar on Science, Technology and Medicine in India, 1930-2000: The Problem of Poverty, organized by Centre for social Medicine and Community Health, JNU and Department of History, Warwick University, 22nd - 23rd March 2012 “Conscious and reflexive learning about innovation for inclusive development,” presented at the SIID workshop organized for the IID (Innovation for Inclusive Development) team from IDRC, at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Feb 6th 2012. “Social Science Research on Agricultural R&D in India: Evolution and Contribution to Policy” at the National Seminar on The Future of Agricultural Development in India: Role of Agricultural Economists, 28th December 2011. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. “Technological and Institutional Change: India’s Development trajectory in an Innovation Systems Framework,” Paper presented at the Research Dialogue on Emerging Economy Perspectives and Priorities in a Multipolar World, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 13-15 Nov 2011. “Norms of Expertise: Agricultural Production and the Environment in India,” lecture delivered at the STS Group, Fall lecture series, Harvard University, Boston, 19 September 2011. “But why? Towards a Policy for Agricultural Research in India”, presented at the Atlanta Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Centre, Atlanta, 15-17 September, 2011. “Shaping Knowledge for Agricultural Production and the Environment in India”, Tuesday Lecture delivered in NISTADS, 6th September 2011. “South Asian Agriculture: Knowledge and Development Debates,” lecture delivered as part of the International Course on Challenge of the Balance: Learning the policies, practices and politics of environmental management, organized by CSE, New Delhi, 5 August, 2011. Keynote speech “Challenges for Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century – A Perspective from India,” delivered at International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture - A Challenge for the 21st Century, organized by GTZ (Gmbh), Brot for die Welt, Welt hunger hilfe, and MISEREOR, Bonn, 23-24 November, 2010.

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“Agricultural Innovation and the Co-evolution of Exclusion in India”, co-authored with K J Joseph, E Haribabu and R Kumar, presented at the Special Session on Exclusion and Institutions in Innovation: Rural China and India, organized by the SIID project team (IDRC sponsored project) at the 8th GLOBELICS International Conference on Making Innovation work for Society, Kuala Lumpur, 1-3 November 2010. “Agricultural S&T and rural India – challenges, options and myths”, in the Session on “State of Research on Rural Issues: Challenges in National Institutions” at the Seminar cum Consultation on Agrarian and Rural Studies – Trends, Texts, Pedagogies and Collaborations, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 19-20 October 2010. “A climate change agenda – key issues and options for Indian agriculture” at the National presentations of chapters for the Handbook on Climate Change (Dubash, ed., OUP, New Delhi), 28-29 September 2010. “Biosafety and Food Security – Towards transformative norms and strategies,“ paper presented at the International Conference on the Dynamics of Rural Transformation in Emerging Economies, organized by the Institute of Human Development (IHD), the Planning Commission (Government of India) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), 14-16 April 2010. “Expertise and Authority: How do gatekeepers handle evidence and dissent?” Paper presented at the Workshop on The Role of Experts in Transnational Science and Health Care Policies, organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi, 5th April 2010. “The SIID project – what it is and why”, presented at the National Workshop on Inclusive Innovation Systems and MSME Clusters in Rural India: Possibilities and Challenges, organized by the Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), Ahmedabad, February 27-28, 2010. “Development Policy and Rural Innovation in India: Roads not taken or acknowledged,” paper presented at the Workshop on Public Administration and Development, organized by NISTADS and Public Administration Delegation from the USA (under the auspices of the People to People Ambassador Programmes), on 24th February, in NISTADS, New Delhi. “Food security and regional trade: What can we expect from the India – ASEAN FTA?” paper presented at the International Seminar on ASEAN India FTA and Way Forward, organized by CDS, Trivandrum, IIFT, New Delhi, Centre for WTO studies, and UNCTAD, Bangkok, 5-6 February 2010, CDS Trivandrum. “Inclusive innovation in Indian Agriculture – Module 2A”, SIID project workshop on Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Development, University of Hyderabad, Nov26-28, 2009. “Landscapes of exclusion: Rice-Wheat and Poverty in the Indo-Gangetic Plains” presented at the National Convention on Making Growth Inclusive – Opportunities, Scope and Challenges at the State leve, GIDR, Ahmedabad, October 26-27 2009.

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“Conceptual challenges for socially inclusive innovation in India’s drylands,” paper presented at the Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium (IAPS), Kathmandu, May 4-7, 2009 “Sustainable Agriculture and the Civic Space: Climate Change and Challenges,“ Keynote Address at the Food and Water Coalition, Consultation on Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture, Sewa Mandir, Udaipur, 30-31 October 2009. “Institutional reform for inclusive growth: enabling the move from biotechnology to bio-innovation,” paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Technology, Policy and Innovation (ICTPI'08), March 13-15, 2009, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. “Equality and Conservation Agriculture: messages in the IAASTD,” presentation made in the session on “Equity and Gender Issues”, at the 4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, at the National Agricultural Science Complex, 6th February 2009. Presented on “Specific Governance Aspects of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology in India”, as part of a panel of experts, at the TERI-DSDS special event on Emerging Technologies in Developing Countries: Capabilities and Governance Issues, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 4th February 2009. “Lessons from the IAASTD – how do we take the agenda forward?” Presentation made at the IAASTD Press launch event, organized by Island Press, Washington, D.C., at the National Agricultural Science Complex, 6th February 2009, New Delhi. Lectures on (i) “Innovation in India’s agricultural and rural sector,” (2nd February) and (ii) “Supporting and enabling rural innovation in India,” (4th February) as part of the course on Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy (DEIP) organized by UNU-MERIT, CDS, and NISTADS, in NISTADS, New Delhi, 2nd to 7th February 2009. “Risks, uncertainties and the institutions of agricultural knowledge,” paper presented at the Knowledge Society Debates, organized by IDS, Sussex – STEPS Centre, 12th January 2009, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. “Learning from cases of Rural Innovation,” presented at the Workshop on Rural Innovation: Constraints and Possibilities, organized by the Department of Science and Technology (Division of Science and Society) and Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), in Ahmedabad, 26th November 2009. “Towards a new economics of knowledge: the case of agricultural sciences and local agro-ecological knowledge systems,” presented at the International Conference on The Commercialisation of Local Knowledge, organized by the University of Warwick and the French Institute, 5-6 November 2008, French Institute, Pondicherry. “The agricultural production-environment interface: lessons from the IAASTD for Indian agricultural policy,” paper presented at the International Seminar on Environmental Degradation

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and Food Crisis – lessons for India, organized by Greenpeace India, India International Center, 24 October 2008. “Modern agricultural technologies- ethics, policy choices and the IAASTD findings,” Presentation made to the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, Roundtable on Ethical Aspects of Modern Developments in Agriculture Technologies, European Commission, Brussels: June 18th 2008. “Fostering bio-innovation in Asia: knowledge gaps and challenges,” seminar at the Resource Economics Colloquium, FoKo, Division of Natural Resource economics, Humbold University, Berlin. 27th May 2008. “Social integration and inclusive approaches: pro-poor and rural innovation,” paper to initiate discussion, presented at the China-India consultation workshop on experiences in innovation for development, IIC and JNU, 22-24 November, 2007. “Fostering Bio-innovation in Asia: How and Why are domains important?” paper presented to the ITS group, at IDRC, Singapore, 15th November 2007. “Rural innovation: Lessons for the State and industry,” paper presented at the Seminar on Trade, Technology and the Impact of Globalization, organized by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Calcutta, 30-31 March 2007, in IIM-Bangalore. “Promoting knowledge applications in agriculture: understanding the norms that govern agricultural research in India,” presentation made to the National Knowledge Commission, Meeting on Agricultural Research and Extension, organized by the National Knowledge Commission, 15th January 2007, in CPR, New Delhi. “Utilizing S&T for eco-friendly rural development: the policy conundrum in India,” presented at the Session on Science for Policy, at the International Conference of the International Society of Ecological Economics, 15-18 December 2006, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. “From traditional crafts to rural industry: policy and investment gaps in the food processing sector” paper presented at the National Seminar on Food Security Through Food Processing, Lekshmi N. Menon Institute for Women’s Empowerment, and The All India Women’s Conference, 28th November 2006, CMD, Trivandrum, Kerala. “Pro-poor rural innovation – are there lessons for agricultural biotechnology?” presented at the Workshop on Integrated Policies for Bio-innovations in Agriculture and Health in Asia, organized by IDRC, AIT and Rockefeller Foundation, on 13-14 November 2006, at AIT, Bangkok, Thailand. “Interactive policy research for rural innovation” presented at the International Conference on S&T Policy Research and Statistical Indicators, organized by the NSF and NASTEC, Sri Lanka, and the NAM S&T Centre, New Delhi, on 8-10 November, at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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“Development and Diffusion of Energy Efficient Devices: lessons for pro-poor innovation from TIDE,” presented at the Session on 4th GLOBELICS Conference, 4-7 October, 2006, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. “Scenario Planning to Guide Investment in Agricultural Innovation” presented at the ARD, World Bank, June 9th 2006, with the other members of the writing team of the Scenario Planning exercise, NAIP (ICAR: World Bank). “Pro-poor Innovation in rural energy – the case of TIDE and BVT” presented at the project workshop organized by CRISP-LINK/ UNU-Merit, at Green Park Hotel, in Hyderabad, May 10th 2006. “Poverty pollutes: Lessons from Rural Innovation,“ presented at the Seminar on Facing the Challenge of Poverty in India, JNU and Indian Academy of Social Science, at JNU, 30th March to 4th April 2006. “Scenario Planning to Guide Investments in the Indian Agricultural Innovation and Policy System” presented at Centre for Policy Research, 24th October 2005. With Kees van der Heijden, and the collaboration of Suresh Pal and Sachin Chaturvedi, presented to: (i) Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, 9th November 2005, (ii) Division of Agriculture and Trade, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 10th November 2005, (iii) The Energy and Resources Institute, IHC, 10th November 2005, (iv) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, 11th November 2005. “Social Sciences for agricultural and rural development: lessons for rural innovation,” presented at the Conference on Globalization and Chinese Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 17-18 September 2005. “Innovation Systems Framework– a comparison of two Government Schemes that use knowledge for rural development,” presented at the Rural Innovation Policy Working Group meeting, organized by UNU/INTECH, CRISP and CPR, at CPR, New Delhi, 13th May 2005. “Draft National Biotechnology Development Strategy–An analysis,” presented by Rajeswari Raina and S. Visalakshi, at NISTADS Tuesday Lecture, NISTADS, New Delhi, 26th April 2005. “Professional Associations – New roles and challenges,” presented at the Workshop on Sustainable Agriculture: The role of professional associations in the agricultural sciences, organized by the National Academy of Agicultural Sciences (NAAS) and the Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture (CASA) at the NASC, New Delhi, 13th April, 2005. “Subsidies and Agricultural Innovations in India,” Presented at the India-China Conference on Agriculture: Tradition, modern technology and globalization, at NISTADS, New Delhi, 23rd-25th March 2005

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“Rural Innovation Systems: Enabling Policies and Practices,” NISTADS Tuesday lecture, presented at NISTADS, 22nd February 2005. “Institutional Learning and Change: Facilitating Capacities for Agricultural Innovation Systems in India,” seminar presented at UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, 20th January 2005. “From technology dissemination to learning approaches: institutional reform for rural development,” paper presented in the Workshop on Institutional Alternatives and Governance Issues in Agriculture, at the Institute for Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) at the 25th Anniversary Symposium on Governance in Development, 14th-20th December 2004. “Institutional and Policy Requirements for wider application of Conservation Agriculture” presented at the panel on Policy Issues, at the National Conference on Conservation Agriculture- Conserving Resources, Enhancing Productivity, organized jointly by the Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture, (CASA) and the Rice- Wheat Consortium for Indo-Gangetic Plains (RWC-IGP), at the National Agricultural Science Complex, New Delhi, 22nd -23rd September 2004. “Institutional reform in knowledge for Integrated Water Management - Groundwater Lessons from Haryana,” presented by Rajeswari S. Raina and Sunita Sangar, at the Workshop on Sustainable Groundwater Management in North-West India, at the Indian National Science Academy, 13th April, 2004. “The agri-biotechnology triple helix: An Innovation Systems analysis of Partnerships,” presented by Rajeswari S. Raina, R. Sulaiman, S. Prasad, A.J. Hall, B. Yoganand, N.Clark, and S. Sangar, at the Conference on Biotechnology and Development: Ensuring Access, Cooperation and Capacity Building in the Asian Region, 7th-8th April 2004, at the RIS, New Delhi. “Learning Institutional Lessons: A presentation on the ‘Institutional Learning and Change Project’, of the CPHP” presented by Rasheed Sulaiman, V., Guru Naik and Rajeswari S. Raina, at the Crop-Post Harvest Programme Workshop-cum-Writeshop on Institutional Outputs, 11-12 March 2004. ICRISAT, Patancheru. India. “Confronting complexity: The evolution of Soil Science research in India, 1980-2001,” Paper presented at the Symposium on Trends in Soil Science at the Annual Convention of the Indian Society of Soil Science, C.S.Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, 4-6 November 2003. “Innovations in Arid Horticulture – the case of pomegranate production and marketing,” presented at the Crop-Post Harvest Progamme (DFID) workshop on Post-harvest innovation: Partnership, learning and institutional change.,in Parwano, Himachal Pradesh. 14th 15 April 2003. Panel discussant at the Session on Public-private partnerships, “Bridging the Technology Divide: Agri-science alliances and the new architecture of innovation” - An International Colloquium for the CGIAR and its partners, Organized by ICRISAT, CIAT, ILRI, CAS and ISNAR, 17-20 March 2003 at ICRISAT, India.

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“Institutional learning and innovation: Origins and implications,” paper presented by Andy Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman and Rajeswari S. Raina at International Workshop on Institutional Learning and Change in the CGIAR, February 3-7, 2003, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. “Agricultural policy and agricultural research in India: an overview,” lecture delivered as Visiting Researcher, at INRA, Paris, 30 May, 2002. “Disciplines, institutions and organizations: Impact assessments in context,” paper presented at the International Conference on Impact of Agricultural R&D, Why Has Impact Assessment Research Not Made More of a Difference?, San Jose, Costa Rica, 4-7 February, 2002. “Water Quality: An Institutional Analysis of Agricultural Science and its Ecology” paper presented at the Second Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, IIFM, Bhopal, 19-21 December 2001. Participant in the INSEE Workshop on “Methodological Issues in Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment”, organized by INSEE and ISEC, at Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED) Bangalore, 22-24 July 2001. “Institutions and Organizations: Agricultural policy, research and extension”, paper presented at the National Seminar on Institutional Change for Greater Agricultural Technology Impact, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi. 13-14 March 2001. “Land Information Systems for Livelihood Security” paper presented at the National Conference on Land Information System, organized by CSDMS, held in New Delhi, 18-19 October 2000. Discussant on ‘Institutional and Organizational Issues in Priority Setting’, at the Workshop on Prioritization in Agricultural Research, organized by the Center for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture, and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in Surajkund, Haryana, 29-30 September 2000. Member of the Syndicate Group on Rice-Wheat Systems Perspectives, at the International Workshop on Developing An Action Program for Farm-Level Impact in Rice-Wheat System of the Indo-Gangetic Plains, held in NBPGR, New Delhi, 25-27 September 2000. “Ecological Economics for evaluation of Soil Science research in India”, paper co-authored with Sunita Sangar, presented (by co-author) at the First Biennial International Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, held in Bangalore, India. December 20-22, 1999. “Commodity bias in science: An Institutional Analysis of the History of Indian Agricultural Research”, lecture delivered to the 4th year class of Ecological Economics, Malardalens Hogskola, Vasteras, Sweden. 1 December 1999.

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“Are Environmental Impact Assessments of scientific research necessary? A case of soil science research in India”. Poster presentation at the Nordic Environmental Impact Assessment Conference, Karlskrona, Sweden. 22-23 November 1999. “Patronage and Evaluation in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research”, seminar presented at the Ecological Economics unit, Department of Business Studies and Informatics, Malardalens Hogskola, Vasteras, Sweden. 1 November 1999 “Valuations and the Evaluation of Research for the improvement of Alkaline Soils”, seminar presented at the Department of Rural Development Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden. 29 October 1999. “Agricultural Sciences and the Social Sciences: An Uneasy Relationship”, paper presented at the All India Workshop on Science and Its Public, Organized by DSF and NISTADS, at NISTADS, New Delhi. 23-24 March 1999. “Some concerns for Regional and Crop-wise Resource Allocation Decisions in Indian Agricultural Research”, paper presented at PADIE workshop on Multi-level Analysis Tool for the Indian agricultural sector , CSH, New Delhi: 17-19 February 1998. “Seasonality, Meaningful Information and Development,” paper presented in the session on Knowledge generation for and by the rural poor, Global Knowledge 1997 Conference, held in Toronto, 22- 25 June 1997. “The Measurement of Agricultural Research Effort: The Indian case”, seminar presented at UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, the Netherlands: 20th April 1995. “Organization and Governance of Agricultural Research in India: Issues and Evidences”, seminar presented at ISNAR, the Hague, the Netherlands: 5th April 1995. “Professionalization and Evaluation in Indian Agricultural Research”, paper presented in the session on Evaluation of Agricultural Research: Regional Perspectives, at the International Evaluation Conference ‘95, held in Vancouver, November 1-5,1995. Participant in the International Seminar on Science and Technology for Social Development, organized by UNESCO/NISTADS, December 12-14 1994, New Delhi. Participant in the World Neem Conference, organized by the Indian Society for Tobacco Science and ITC, February 24-28, 1993, Bangalore. “Organizational Evolution of the Agricultural Research System in India: Issues and Evidences”, internal seminar, Centre for Development Studies, 13 July, 1990. “Research Methodology for the Management of Common Property Resources: A Discussion”, presented at the Twentieth Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop on Management of Renewable Resources-II, organised by the MIDS and ICSSR, 6-9 June 1990.

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C. Miscellaneous publications: Opinions/news paper pieces:

• “Vitalstatistix and the SDGs” The Statesman, Tuesday, September 29th, 2015. (www.epaper.thestatesman.com/c/6698442)

• “Put small holders centre-stage: Call for G7 support to end world hunger and poverty,” by Rajeswari S. Raina, in the alternative, March 11, 2015. (see – www.thealternative.in/society/)

• What Rainfed Farming Communities Need? In The HINDU, Survey of Indian Agriculture 2014, What does a farmer really need today? The HINDU: Chennai. Pp.52-55.

• Rural India left out of S&T system, in SciDev.net, Opinion, Nov 16th, 2012.

(http://www.scidev.net/en/south-asia/opinions/rural-india-left-out-of-s-t-system.html) co-authored with Kasturi Mandal

• Review of Churning the Earth, A. Shrivastava and A. Kothari 2012. in Hindustan Times,

August 2012.

• “Changing the rules of the game,” Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 11 (1): 232-237 (April 2006).

Review of Padaki, Vijay and Manjulika Vaz (2004) Institutional Development in Social Interventions – Towards Inter-Organizational Effectiveness, Sage Publications: New Delhi/ Thousand Oaks/ London.

• “Agrarian Scholarship: Actors, Processes and Policies“ The Book Review, Vol. 28(2):p. 28. (February 2004)

Review of Ramachandran,V.K. and Swaminathan, M. (Eds.) 2002. Agrarian Studies – Essays on Agrarian Relations in Less-Developed Countries, Tulika: New Delhi.

• “From Turf Wars to Trans-disciplinary Evolution,” The Book Review, Vol. 27 (9):p.19.(September 2003).

Review of Naqvi, Syed Nawab Haider, 2002, Development Economics: Nature and Significance, Sage: New Delhi. • Review in Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 6 (2): 419-425. (2001) Akhil Gupta, Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Oxofrd University Press: New Delhi. • Review in CLOSS, Vol. 29 (1-2): 11-14. (January-February, 2000). Christopher L. Delgado et al. 1998. “Agricultural Growth Linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa”. IFPRI Research Report No. 107. International Food Policy Research Institute: Washington, D.C.

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• “Palanpur: the Chicago Economist’s Paradise!”, The Book Review, Vol. 23 (8): 15-16. (August

1999). Review of Peter Lanjouw, Nicholas Stern (Eds.). 1998. Economic Development in Palanpur Over Five Decades. Oxford University Press: Delhi. • Review in CLOSS, Vol. 28 (3-4): 73-76 (March - April 1999). Reidar Dale. 1998. Evaluation Frameworks for Development Programmes and Projects. Sage Publications: New Delhi. • Review in Science, Technology & Society Vol. 4 (1): 144-152. (1999). Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff and Milton J. Esman, (eds.) 1998. Reasons for hope - Instructive experiences in rural development. Vistaar Publications New : Delhi. and Norman Uphoff, Milton J. Esman and Anirudh Krishna. 1998. Reasons for success - Learning from instructive experiences in rural development. Vistaar Publications: New Delhi. • “To Him That Hath Much, Shall Much Be Given”, The Book Review, Vol. 23 (4): 10-11. (April

1999) Review of T. Scarlett Epstein, A.P. Suryanarayana, T. Thimmegowda. 1998. Village Voices - Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India. Sage Publications: New Delhi. • “Of Grains and Greens”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34 (7): 405-408. (February 13,

1999) Review of Clive Potter. 1998. Against the Grain - Agri-environmental Reform in the United States and the European Union. CAB International: Wallingford. • Review in CLOSS, Vol.27 (7-8): 187-190. (July-August 1998) Clive Potter. 1998. Against the Grain - Agri-environmental Reform in the United States and the European Union. CAB International: Wallingford. • Review in Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 2 (1): 179-183. (1997) John L. Enos, 1995. In Pursuit of Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The impact of structural adjustment programmesUNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development Routledge(in association with UNU Press): London. • “Culture on Nature”, Down to Earth, page 59.(October 31, 1996) Review of Richard Mabey, (ed.) 1995 The Oxford Book of Nature Writing Oxford University Press: Oxford. • Review in CLOSS, Vol. 24 (4): 135-137. (April 1995).

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Philip Payne and Michael Lipton with Richard Longhurst, James North, and Steven Treagust. “How Third World Rural Households Adapt to Dietary Energy Stress --The Evidence and the Issues”, Food Policy Review No. 2, 1994, International Food Policy Research Institute: Washington ,D.C. • “The Food Question”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 29 (24): 1455-1456.(June 11,

1994). Review of Henry Bernstein, Ben Crow, Maureen Mackintosh and Charlotte Martin (ed.) 1990. The Food Question: Profits versus People?. Earthscan Publications: London. • Review in CLOSS , Vol. 23 (10-11) : 263-265. (1994). Buarque, Cristovam 1993.The End of Economics? Ethics and the disorder of Progress Zed Books Ltd: London. • Review in CLOSS (Current Literature on Science of Science) , Vol. 22 (10-11): 303 -304

(1993). Carliene Brenner. 1993. Technology and Developing Country Agriculture: The Impact of Economic Reform. Development Centre Studies, OECD: Paris. Several articles/comments in newspapers and magazines. D. Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences Organized: Organized a panel discussion on “Valuing Variability: New Perspectives on Climate Resilient Drylands Development”, as a collaborative event organized by NISTADS, CSSP (JNU), RRA Network and RLN, in JNU, 21 August 2015. Symposium on “Growth, green growth or degrowth? New critical directions for India’s sustainability,” organized in collaboration with Julien Fracois-Gerber, TERI University, at the India Habitat Centre, sponsored by Ford Foundation, ICSSR-Northern Regional Centre, and INSEE, 12-13th September 2014. Rainfed Farming Systems: Evolving Operational Framework for the Recommended Programme Under the 12th Five Year Plan, organized in collaboration with the RRA Network, CRIDA, and Ministry of Agriculture, Dept of Agriculture and Co-operation (DoAC), National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, sponsored by FAO, at CRIDA, Hyderabad, on 14-15 May 2013. Organized a brainstorming on “Organic markets and margins” with producers, traders, suppliers, certification agencies and support organizations like NGOs, line department, scientists, and environmental groups, at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc campus, Bangalore, as part of the TERI-NISTADS collaborative project sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, 29th September 2012.

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With a team from TERI, organized a brainstorming session on Policy and Institutional Support for Organic Agriculture in India, as part of the TERI-NISTADS collaborative project sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, in TERI, 25th August 2012. Organized two panels at the 6th Biennial Conference of the INSEE (Indian Society of Ecological Economics):

1. Panel on : Green Accounting in India: How can Georgescu-Roegen help? Panelists – Prof. John Gowdy, Prof, Juan Martinez Alier, Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina Anchored by Ms. Shailly Kedia Organized as a NISTADS-TERI collaboration

2. Panel on: Rethinking Science, Ethics and Ecosystems Panelists – Prof.Sudarshan Iyengar, Dr. Deepak Malghan, Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina, Dr. Shambu Prasad Organized as a NISTADS-XIIM-Bhubaneswar, Gujarat Vidyapeeth collaboration Both panels were held on 21st Oct 2011, at th INSEE Conference 20-22 October 2011, CSSS, Hyderabad. International Seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development NISTADS (New Delhi), STEPS-Centre (Sussex) and CDS (Trivandrum), June 28-30, 2011, in NISTADS, New Delhi. NISTADS-CWDS Public Lecture on STS “Questions and Approaches in Feminist Science Studies,” by Prof. Helen Longino, Department of Philosophy, Standford University, at India International Centre, 24 December 2010. Special Session on “Exclusion and Institutions in Innovation: Rural China and India,” with SIID India-China team, organized at the 8th International GLOBELICS Conference on Making Innovation Work for Society: Linking, Leveraging, Learning, at KualaLumpur, 2nd Nov 2010. NISTADS-UNESCO Workshop on “Policies, Institutions and Values: the architecture of S&T for development in South Asia,” at India International Centre, 31st March 2010. Rural Innovation for Sustainable Development: Constraints and Possibilities, organized in collaboration with Prof. Keshab Das, GIDR, for the grantees of the Science and Society Projects of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), in Sardar Patel Institute, Ahmedabad, 26th November 2008, at the Sardar Patel Institute, Ahmedabad. China-India consultation workshop on Experiences in Innovation for Development, organized in collaboration with Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU, New Delhi and Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, 22nd -24th November 2007, at the India International Centre and JNU, New Delhi. Workshop on the Crisis in Indian Agriculture and Ways Forward, organized by CPR, as a workshop to plan the CPR Policy Colloquium on Indian Agriculture, on the 6th of November 2006, at CPR, New Delhi.

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Rural Innovation Policy Working Group (RIPWG) – Final workshop organized as part of the research project on ‘promoting rural innovations’- with UNU/INTECH, CRISP and NCAP, on 12th May 2006 at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Third Rural Innovation Policy Working Group (RIPWG) meeting organized as part of the research project on ‘promoting rural innovations’- with senior bureaucrats, research managers, voluntary and academic sector representatives. Organized with UNU/INTECH, CRISP and NCAP, on 24th January 2006 at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Workshop on Learning with Financial Organizations for Enabling Rural Innovation, organized in collaboration with NEDFi, Guwahati, CTD, Delhi, UNU-INTECH, Maastricht, and CHD, Guwahati, at Hotel Pragati Manor, 9th -10th Dec 2005, Guwahati. Capacity Development Workshop on Applying Innovation Systems Concepts to Agricultural Research, organized in collaboration with Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) and UNU-INTECH, November 22nd -24th 2005, at CRISP, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad. Second Rural Innovation Policy Working Group (RIPWG) meeting organized as part of the research project on ‘promoting rural innovations’- with senior bureaucrats, research managers, voluntary and academic sector representatives. Organized with UNU/INTECH, CRISP and NCAP, on 13th May 2005 at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. “Capacity Development Workshop on Rural Innovation Systems: Emphasising the Post-harvest sector” organized jointly in collaboration with CPHP-South Asia, CRISP, NCAP, NISTADS and ILRI, in ICRISAT, Patancheru, from 22nd-29th November 2004. First Rural Innovation Policy Working Group (RIPWG) meeting organized as part of the research project on ‘promoting rural innovations’- with senior bureaucrats, research managers, voluntary and academic sector representatives. Organized with UNU/INTECH, CRISP and NCAP, on 31st August 2004, at the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. NATP Project Workshop on “Valuation Indicators for natural resources research,” sponsored as part of the NATP project in NISTADS, organized jointly by NISTADS and CASA, 12th September 2002. National Workshop on “Re-designing Agricultural R&D to Achieve Policy Objectives” sponsored by the National Academy of Agricultural Science, and organized jointly by NISTADS, CASA and NCAP, at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) 10-11th April 2002.