Select publications on grassroots innovations, biodiversity and disaster management:

Making Indian Agriculture more Knowledge Intensive and Competitive:  The Case of Intellectual Property Rights, published in Indian Agriculture in the New Millennium: Changing Perceptions and Development Policy, 2006 (Eds. N.A.Mujumdar and Uma Kapila), p.285 - 327

Harnessing Knowledge Bank to Spur Growth, January 9, 2006, Times of India, Ahmedabad, pp..5.

Necessity is the Mother of Innovations, January 10, 2006, Times of India, Ahmedabad, pp..3.

(With R.A.Mashelkar) Women and Formal and Informal Science, IIMA, published in History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilisation (General Editor: D.P.Chattopadhyaya), 2005, Volume IX Part 3, Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods (ed. Bharati Ray), New Delhi, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd., Chapter 10, p. 208 – 235.

We can certainly do better - Post-tsunami disaster management: An agenda for action, The Financial Express, 1st Jan 2005  

(With Vikas Chandak) Agricultural Biotechnology in India: Ethics, Business and Politics, presented at the International Workshop on Agricultural biotechnology in the Developing World:  Perceptions, Politics and Policies, organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on 12th March 2004, IIMA Working Paper No.2004-07-01, July 2004, International Journal of Biotechnology, 2005,  Vol 7 No 1/2/3, 212-225

Environmental Aspects of Social change: Agenda for statistical research, presented at the Workshop on Statistical Science and Environmental Policy: Possible Interactions at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta 11 – 13 January 2000, published in Sustainable Environments: Ecological, Economic, Socio-cultural and Statistical Aspects (Eds. A.K.Ghosh, J.K.Ghosh, Barun Mukhopadhyay), 2004, ISI, Calcutta, p. 163-181.

Why is Media so Apathetic? Published in VIDURA: Journal of The Press Institute of India, New Delhi, Vol. 40, Issue No. 2 (2003), p. 8-10

Sharing Benefits with the Conservators of Diversity” Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity:  A Source Book, CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 3, p. 608 - 613, March 2003

Farmers as Plant Breeders: Three cases from India Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity:  A Source Book, CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 2, p. 332-336, March 2003

(With Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B.Ghosh, Riya Sinha and Neeru Jain) Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India, published in “Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity:  Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies” (Ed. Detlef Virchow), Berlin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 137 – 174, 2003.

Mobilizing Grassroots’ technological Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, values and institutions:  Articulating Social and Ethical Capital, published in the Futures Volume 35, Issue 9, November 2003, Pages 975 – 987

(With Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights, responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated knowledge systems, Presented at International Conference of MAB UNESCO on  Biosphere Reserve, IFRI. Dehradun, 22-25, Feb 2001, published in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta),  Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002, p. 161-181.  

(With Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya) Contours of collaboration: Coping with disasters through effective inter-organisational networks, talk delivered at the seminar on “Disaster Management and the Armed Forces:  A National Effort” on 11th September 2002 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi and published later by the Army Headquarters and Institution of Engineers, New Delhi in their souvenir, p. 61 – 69, 2002

Rights for all, “Managing Intellectual Property”, June 2002, Issue 120, p.34-37

Ethics of Extraction: Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, published in Protecting Biological Diversity under the title Blending Universal and Local Ethics:  Accountability towards Nature, Perfect Strangers and Society (Eds. Catherine Potvin, Margaret Kraenzel and Gilles Seutin) , London, Ithaca, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston,  p. 129-148,  2001  

Sustainability Through Biodiversity:  Designing Crucible of Culture, Creativity and Conscience in “Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: A Natural Resource Perspective.” New Delhi and Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., 2001, pp. 179 - 226.

Implications of WTO On Indian Agriculture:  The Case Of Intellectual Property Rights And Emerging Biosafety Protocol, 1999; IIMA WP No.99-10-06, October 1999, published as a chapter in the book entitled, Implications of WTO Agreements for India Agriculture.  Samar K Datta and Satish Y. Deodhar (Eds.). Calcutta and New Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., (2001), Chapter 10;  pp.245-307

Grassroots Movements: Introductory Statement, published in Villages in the Future: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood (Eds. Detlef Virchow and Joachim von Braun), New York, Springer-Verlag BerlinHeidelberg, p. 93 – 95, 2001

Rich in ideas: Grassroots creativity, “International Herald Tribune, October 11, 2001

Grassroots Globalisation: An alternative model of globalisation,” Gentleman, (June 2001), pp.47-53

The Honey Bee Network: Creativity, Conservation and Compensation, “entwicklung + landlicher raum, 2, 2001, 28-30.

Creativity Counts, “International Journal of Sustainable Development”, Vol.3.No.1, 2000, pp.95-107.

Creativity Counts, “International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol.3, No.3, 2000, 297-308

Grassroots Innovations for Survival, “LEISA India, Vol.2, No.2, (July 2000), 20-21