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Survival under stress in India: a socio-ecological perspective on farmer risk adjustment and innovations
(1990-09-29)
It has been suggested that it did not matter if the natural scientists did not interact with the farmers as long as they were developing technologies relevant for ecologically uniform and well-endowed conditions such as ...
Science, sustainability and social purpose: barriers to effective articulation, dialogue and utilization of formal and informal science in public policy
(1999-10-13)
The communication among scientists, policy makers, public policy analysts and the
common people in society is often fraught with ambiguity, anxiety and some times clear
confusion. Not to mention the times when it is very ...
Knowledge and agency: creating networks
(1997-10-11)
A river without tributaries: liberating the mind through harnessing grassroots creativity
(1996-10-07)
The authors, in an apparent bid to emphasise the critical need for assimilation of the logic and sprit behind the drive of liberalization by the common man in the street in the minds of realities that mark our present ...
Lessons from learners
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)
National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ...
Strategic opportunities in managing IPRs: Biodiversity, drug industry and emerging options
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)
In this paper, I first discuss the key concept of IPR and its relevance for our conditions. I particularly refer to the opportunities that exist globally with specific reference to patent expiration, biodiversity based ...
Ethics of extraction: Biodiversity and indigenous knowledge
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)
Extraction of local knowledge of people has gone on for a very long time without any reciprocity or accountability towards the knowledge providers. The paper looks at several kinds of accountability of researchers such as ...