INNOVATION IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE: WAYS FORWARD

4-5 December 2014

Kamladevi Complex, India International Centre40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi – 110003

Institute of Economic Growth

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CONFERENCE PROGRAmmE

DAY ONE: Thursday, December 4, 2014

Venue: multipurpose Hall

8.30 to 9.00: Registration

9.00 to 10.30: INAUGURAL SESSION Structural Transformation, Innovation, and Investment in Indian Agriculture: Priorities for Accelerating Sustainable Growth

Chair:Manoj Panda, InstituteofEconomicGrowth,DelhiCo-chair: David J. Spielman, InternationalFoodPolicyResearchInstitute,Washington,DC

Inaugural address:Kirit S Parikh, IntegratedResearchandActionforDevelopment(IRADe),NewDelhi

Keynote address:Ashok Gulati, IndianCouncilforResearchonIndianEconomicRelations(ICRIER),NewDelhi

Panel Discussion

Uma Lele, independentscholaranddevelopmenteconomist,Washington,DC

Ramesh Chand, NationalCentreforAgriculturalEconomicsandPolicyResearch,NewDelhi

Madhur Gautam, WorldBank,Washington,DC

Meetu Kapur, ConfederationofIndianIndustry,NewDelhi

10.30-11.00: Tea/coffee break

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11.00-12.30: PLENARY SESSION

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Agricultural Productivity Growth, Technological Change and Institutional Innovation: Policy Solutions and Options

Chair: C.Ramasamy, IndianSocietyofAgriculturalEconomics,MumbaiCo-Chair: Devesh Roy, InternationalFoodPolicyResearchInstitute,Washington,D.C

PresentationsKeith Fuglie, UnitedStatesDepartmentofAgriculture,Washington,DC

Bina Agarwal, UniversityofManchester,UK

Bharat Ramaswami, IndianStatisticalInstitute,NewDelhiRikin Gandhi, DigitalGreen,NewDelhi

12.30-1.30: Lunch break

1.30-3.00: PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session 1A: Productivity Growth, Research, and Development

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Chair:Ashok vishan Dass, CommissionforAgriculturalCostsandPrices,NewDelhiCo-chair: Suresh Pal, IndianAgriculturalResearchInstitute,NewDelhi

Nicholas Rada, U.S.DepartmentofAgriculture,Washington,D.CCarl Pray, RutgersUniversity,NewJerseySubash S.P., InternationalMaizeandWheatImprovementCenter(CIMMYT)

Session 1B: Rural Business Development and Environmental Sustainability

Venue: Seminar Hall 2

Chair: Sanjay Kaul, NationalCollateralManagementServicesLtd.,MumbaiCo-chair:R.S. Deshpande, IndianCouncilofSocialScienceResearch(ICSSR)

Mamata Swain, RavenshawUniversity, CuttackAlwin Keil, InternationalMaizeandWheatImprovementCenter(CIMMYT)Sibabrata Choudhury, Landesa,Odisha,BhubaneswarJeetendra P. Aryal, InternationalMaizeandWheatImprovementCenter(CIMMYT)

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Parallel Session 1C: Structural Transformation, Trade, and Agricultural Intensification

Venue: Seminar Hall 3

Chair:J.S.Sandhu, AgriculturalCommissioner,MinistryofAgriculture,NewDelhiCo-chair: Manmohan Agarwal, ResearchandInformationSystemsforDevelopingCountries(RIS),NewDelhi

Alwin D’Souza, JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhiMarta Kozicka, UniversityofBonn, GermanySimi Mehta, JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi

3.00-3.30: Tea/coffee break

3.30-5.00: PLENARY SESSION

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Agricultural Science, Technology, and Innovation in India: Pushing at the Frontiers?

Chair: Ramesh Chand, NationalCentreforAgriculturalEconomicsandPolicyResearch,NewDelhiCo-Chair:N. Chandrasekhara Rao, InstituteforEconomicGrowth,NewDelhi

R. Ezekiel, NationalAgriculturalInnovationProject,NewDelhiS. Senthilkumaran Krishnan, RelianceFoundation,MumbaiRonald J Herring, CornellUniversity,Ithaca,USAJyotsna Puri, InternationalInitiativeforImpactEvaluation,NewDelhi

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DAY TWO: Friday, December 5, 2014

9.00 to 10.30: PLENARY SESSION

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Strengthening Agriculture’s Role in Improving Health and Nutrition in India

Chair: Uma Lele, IndependentscholaranddevelopmenteconomistCo-chair:H.P.S. Sachdev, SitaramBhartiaInstituteofScienceandResearch,NewDelhi

William Masters, TuftsUniversity,BostonJ.V. Meenaskhi, DelhiSchoolofEconomics,NewDelhiPurnima Menon, InternationalFoodPolicyResearchInstitute,NewDelhi

10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee break

11.00-12.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 2A: Value Addition and Agricultural Value Chain Development

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Chair: Siraj Hussain, Secretary,MinistryofFoodProcessingIndustriesCo-chair: Anil Gupta, NationalInnovationFoundation,Ahmedabad

Bhushana Karandikar, IndependentScholarNaresh Singla, CentralUniversityofPunjab,BathindaP.G. Chengappa, InstituteforSocialandEconomicChange,BangaloreRajib Sutradhar, InstituteofEconomicGrowth,NewDelhiTara Nair, GujaratInstituteofDevelopmentResearch,Ahmedabad

Parallel session 2B: Technological Frontiers, Intellectual Property, and Productivity Growth

Venue: Seminar Hall 3

Chair:Sachin Chaturvedi, ResearchandInformationSystemsforDevelopingCountries(RIS),NewDelhiCo-chair: Ram Kaundinya, AssociationofBiotechnologyLedEnterprises,Bangalore

Sheetal Menon,IndianInstituteofTechnology,BombayMrinalini Kochupillai, MunichIntellectualPropertyLawCenter,GermanyVivekananda Mukherjee, JadavpurUniversity,KolkataSaurabh Kumar, CUTSInternational,Jaipur

12.30-1.30: Lunch break

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1.30-3.00: PLENARY SESSION

Venue: multipurpose Hall

Climate Change, Natural Resource management, and Sustainable Intensification

Chair: Kirit S Parikh, IntegratedResearchandActionforDevelopment(IRADe),NewDelhiCo-chair:Bharat Ramaswami, IndianStatisticalInstitute,NewDelhi

Pramod Aggarwal, InternationalWaterManagementInstituteTravis Lybbert, UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,CaliforniaPatrick Ward, InternationalFoodPolicyResearchInstitute,NewDelhi

3.00-3.30: Tea/Coffee break

3.30-5.00: PANEL DISCUSSION

Venue: multipurpose Hall

The Ways Forward for Indian Agriculture

Chair:Nitin Desai, InstituteofEconomicGrowth,NewDelhi

Speakers:Abhijit Sen, JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhiUma Lele, IndependentscholarandDevelopmentEconomistPranav Desai, CentreforStudiesinSciencePolicy,JNU,NewDelhiPeddireddy Changal Reddy, FederationofIndianFarmers’AssociationsDavid J Spielman, InternationalFoodPolicyResearchInstitute,Washington,D.C

5:00:VOTE OF THANKS AND CONFERENCE CLOSING

N. Chandrasekhara Rao, InstituteofEconomicGrowth,NewDelhi

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Speaker Topic

UmaLeleIndia’sStructuralTransformationfromaComparativePerspective:ImplicationsforPolicy

RameshChandIssuesandChallengesinIndianAgriculture:ImplicationsforDevelopment,GrowthandPovertyReduction

MadhurGautamAcceleratingagricultureproductivitygrowthinIndia:Issuesandopportunities

MeetuKapur Structuraltransformations,catalyzinginvestmentsinagriculture

KeithFuglie Researchinvestmentandproductivitygrowthinagriculture

BinaAgarwalGenderinequality,farmproductivityandinstitutionalinnovation

BharatRamaswami MSP,WelfareandReforms

RikinGandhi Socialnetworksforagriculturaldevelopment

NicholasRada PropellingAgriculturalProductivityinIndia

CarlPrayThetransformationofIndianagriculturalinputindustries:HasitincreasedagriculturalR&D?

SubhashS.P.Trade-offandsynergiesbetweenagriculturalintensificationandecologicalsustainabilityinPunjab

MamataSwain ClimatechangeandcropinsuranceinIndia

AlwinKeilMakingzero-tillagetechnologyaccessibletopoorfarmers:Whoarethe‘serious’serviceproviders?

SibabrataChoudhuryLandallocationandhomesteaddevelopmentforlandlesspoorthroughconvergenceofgovernmentprogrammes

JeetendraP.AryalGenderdimensionsofclimatechangeadaptationinagriculture:EvidencefromHaryanaandBiharstatesofIndia

AlwinD’SouzaStructuraltransformationintheNorth-EasternRegionofIndia:Chartingoutanagriculture-baseddevelopmentpolicy

PRESENTERS AND PRESENTATION TITLES

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Speaker Topic

MartaKozickaFoodgrainpoliciesinIndia:Implicationforstocksandfiscalcosts

SimiMehtaAgriculturalpolicyprocessesandimplications:AstudyofIndo-USagriculturalcooperation

R.EzekielPublic-PrivatePartnershipsinAgriculturalValueChainswithParticularReferencetoNAIP

S.SenthilkumaranInformationCommunicationandTechnologyasDriverofOpentoSkyVentures(AgricultureandFisheries)

RonaldJHerring It’snotaboutthescience:Technology,riskandwelfare

JyotsanaPuri Agriculturalincomeorforests:Isitalwaysazerosumgame?

WilliamMastersAgriculturaldevelopmentandnutritionimprovementincomparativeperspective:India,Africaandtherest

J.V.MeenaskhiTheparadoxofunderfedchildreninwell-fedhouseholds:SomeevidencefromruralBihar

PurnimaMenonChildhoodundernutritioninSouthAsia:Perspectivesfromthefieldofnutrition

BhushanaKarandikarInformationanddemandforfoodsafety:EvidencefromaninstoreexperimentinMumbai

NareshSinglaLinkagesbetweensmallscaleproducersandfreshfoodsupermarketsinIndia:Impactsonincome,efficiencyanddiversification

P.G.ChengappaSustainabilitycertificationinitiativesinIndia:Perceptionsandpracticesincoffeeindustry

RajibSutradharDoessupplyingfreshproducetosupermarketsbenefitfarmers:EvidencefromIndia

TaraNairAggregation,organisationandmarketintegration:AcasestudyofasmallfarmerproducercompanyinIndia

SheetalMenonGlobalassessmentofconcentrationlevelsinplantvarietyprotection(PVP)rightsawarded:ComparisonwiththeIndiancontext

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Speaker Topic

MrinaliniKochupillaiRevisiting‘MarketFailures’forSustainableInnovationsinPlantVarieties:AReviewofPlantVarietyApplicationTrendsinIndia(2007-2014)

VivekanandaMukherjeeLivingwithinaccuracy:HowmuchaccuracydoweneedinGMtestingtechnology?

SaurabhKumarInstitutionalandpolicyissuesinseedstradebetweenIndiaandBangladesh:Astudyofchallengesandopportunities

PramodAggarwal Arewereadytoscale-outclimate-smartagriculture?

TravisLybbertWeathershocksandinter-hemisphericsupplyresponses:Implicationsforclimatechangeeffectsonglobalfoodmarkets

PatrickWardFarmers’preferencesforabioticstress-tolerantpaddyineasternIndia

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