R. Venkat Ramanujam

• November 1, 2020

  Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto

  We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
• August 1, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic and complex effects on farmers and food-supply chains: an early dispatch from India.

  R. Venkat Ramanujam and Amit John Kurien Agriculture’s contribution to the Indian economy is critical and complex. It contributes 16% of India’s GDP but supports between 50-60% of the labour force and up to 70% of all rural households (see a quick overview here).  Livelihoods in agriculture have been stressed for some time now due…