Papers by Rajeswari Raina
From technology development and dissemination to learning approaches. In: Paper presented at the Workshop on Institutional Alternatives and Governance Issues in Agriculture, Twenty Fifth Anniversary Symposium on Governance in Development, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat, India. 18 D...
Institutional Rigidities and Impediments
But why? Towards agricultural science policy in India
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2011India, with a successful green revolution... more Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2011India, with a successful green revolution, is now the republic of hunger . This paper analyses the evolution of economic growth, agricultural policy and science. Scientific research, historically subsumed within overall policy goals, needs capacities for iterative policy research, to articulate its policy, learn, lead and enable an inclusive innovation system.IDRC, Canad
Institutional Learning and Change: Facilitating capacities for agricultural innovation systems in India. Lecture presented at the United Nations University, Institute of New Technologies, Maastricht, Netherlands, 20 January 2005
Post-harvest innovations in innovation: a synthesis of recent cases
IAASTD International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: Global Report
Countering Seasonal Rural Problems: Integrated Participatory Information System
Economic and Political Weekly, 2000
... The case is quite the reverse in the LDCs, where the incidence of poverty and sea-sonal indus... more ... The case is quite the reverse in the LDCs, where the incidence of poverty and sea-sonal industries is high, and the market and ... to both sectors, the gross domestic product (GDP) figures are not available separately for the agriculture and livestock subsectors [Kulshreshtha et al ...
Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Development
Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Reorienting India’s Agricultural Policy
Journal of Ecological Society, Feb 4, 2022
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Nurturing the Institutional Sine Qua Non for the Informal Sector
India Studies in Business and Economics, 2020
Social enterprises (SEs) have sprouted in India over the past couple of decades, addressing sever... more Social enterprises (SEs) have sprouted in India over the past couple of decades, addressing several social and economic demands. But their emergence and evolution, partaking of the market and the state, has received little academic attention. Besides the compelling reason that the state has to and can play a major role in facilitating SEs that ensure inclusive development, there is an institutional imperative, a need to explore and explain the institutions (rules and norms) that are at the heart of social innovation and lead to the creation and growth of SEs. This chapter argues that the SEs embody a set of principles that are central to inclusive innovation. Here, the social entrepreneur’s capacity to question existing norms, rules and ways of working and find alternative norms that ensure social value and prosperity for the ‘excluded’ become the game changer. The analysis leads us to question what scale means to the SE, and whether and how the Indian state can enable an appropriate ecosystem for fostering and upscaling SEs.
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review (Dasgupta 2021), henceforth the Review, tells ... more The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review (Dasgupta 2021), henceforth the Review, tells us that we are embedded in Nature and our economies are bounded within Nature. It helps us estimate the value of natural capital and include it in estimations of economic output. The Review’s key messages concern (i) keeping our demands well within Nature’s supply, (ii) moving away from gross domestic product (GDP) towards inclusive wealth as a measure of economic success, and (iii) acknowledging the institutional failure in addressing global environmental problems and resolving them through institutional reforms in the financial and education systems. However, this commentary suggests that the Review is about conserving economics for biodiversity. It offers little opportunity for transformative change in our thinking and acting, to change our relationship with Nature so that we can conserve its diversity and dynamism...
The Valuation Conundrum Biodiversity and Science Policy Interface in India S Livestock Sector
Economic and Political Weekly, 2016
Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is considered essential to formulate policies fo... more Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is considered essential to formulate policies for sustainable development. But monetary valuation of BES reinforces the prevalent science–policy relationships that have led to the erosion of biodiversity. The livestock sector with multiple ecosystem services, valued for its contribution to the economy, strong policy and programme agendas, livestock breeding and maintenance sciences is used to illustrate the science–policy interface and the choices made for livestock improvement and for livestock biodiversity.
special article A Messy Confrontation of a Crisis in Agricultural Science
Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. The insights drawn ... more Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. The insights drawn are situated in an historical recognition of the interface between agricultural crises and agricultural knowledge. The paper offers a window on both ongoing debates in agricultural science and the experiences of other recent international assessments of energy, the environment, and climate change. It is concerned with analysing how the iaastd was designed and written, for what it can tell us about the conclusions drawn and controversies raised. The democratic practices underpinning the set of iaastd reports and the integrated approach to agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, commodity production, and environmental and social goals, are central for understanding contemporary debates about agricultural knowledge. Shelley Feldman
Institutional learning and change: towards a capacity-building agenda for research. A review of recent research on post-harvest innovation systems in South Asia
Agriculture and the development burden
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (I... more The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), on which Agriculture at the Crossroads is based, was a three-year collaborative effort begun in 2005 that assessed our capacity to meet development and sustainability goals of: Reducing hunger and poverty; Improving nutrition, health and rural livelihoods; and Facilitating social and environmental sustainability" "Governed by a multi-stakeholder bureau comprised of 30 representatives from government and 30 from civil society, the process brought together 110 governments and 400 experts, representing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, producers, consumers, the scientific community, multilateral environment agreements (MEAs), and multiple international agencies involved in the agricultural and rural development sectors.". "In addition to assessing existing conditions and knowledge, the IAASTD uses a simple set of model projections to look...
Inclusive Innovation: Realizing the Options
India Studies in Business and Economics
The options presented in this chapter address the derelict policy learning capacities in India. W... more The options presented in this chapter address the derelict policy learning capacities in India. With respect to the excluded rural, the cases in Part II can be placed in three groups, (i) where the rural informal actors coevolve, learn and enable innovation, (ii) where they engage with the state and organized knowledge actors to confront prevalent exclusions and enable inclusive innovation and development outcomes and (iii) where the state and its formal knowledge actors learn and work towards inclusion and innovation. This chapter presents options for proactive learning, and institutional and technological innovation among diverse actors. By presenting a platter of options to diverse decision makers, it places the onus of choice and need for interactions and learning on them. The contents and processes of change are then ontologically different from policy makers receiving prescriptions from the ST and (ii) from the user or beneficiary of the innovation (the rural poor) to the state and formal organized S&T as co-learners, guiders and shapers of both knowledge and the economy (its actors). The theoretically conditioned expectation in development economics and innovation systems, that policy prescriptions based on ex-post evidence will lead to innovation and economic performance, is a twentieth-century construct. Inclusive innovation demands ex-ante engagement and learning, with decentralized innovation capacities and nonhierarchical selection of innovation projects. These are projects that acknowledge and cultivate human resources with local knowledge and socio-cultural systems understandings.
Institutional Strangleholds: Agricultural Science and the State in India
Inclusive Innovation: Changing Actors and Agenda
This introductory chapter presents the spaces, forms and norms of exclusion mainly in and of rura... more This introductory chapter presents the spaces, forms and norms of exclusion mainly in and of rural India. It lays the foundation for explaining the evidence on how some of these exclusions have been overcome or changed to enable inclusive innovation, and how many forms and norms of exclusion persist. Theoretically, the state with its organized policies and programmes, and the formal organized knowledge actors are the fulcrum in both development economics and innovation systems studies. When exclusion in its multiple and mutually reinforcing forms becomes invisible or part of accepted norms of development, the nature of these actors and their agenda demand specific attention. Drawing upon the findings of a research project, which was that inclusive innovation demanded reform or major changes in the innovation system components, this chapter explores the conventional dichotomy between public and private policies and decision making, the capacity of the state and the market to direct a...
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Chapter 2: Sustainable Development in South Asia
Chapter 4: Environmental Issues and Economic Development in Pakistan
The Report addresses the links between environmental deterioration, equity, empowerment and economic growth. It highlights the economic, social and environmental challenges that need to be addressed to promote sustainable human development. It presents a policy framework for sustainable development in the context of achieving broader SDGs in a balanced and integrated manner in South Asia. It concludes that sustainability is key to fostering human development, and can only be achieved through direct interventions that simultaneously focus on the eradication of poverty and hunger, reduction of inequalities, improvements in energy access for the poor, and minimization of environmental risks.