symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Bhaskar Goswami, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, Delhi

• MEDIA AND THE AGRARIAN CRISIS
  Kalpana Sharma, independent journalist and columnist, Mumbai

• COPING WITH COMPLEXITY
  C. Shambu Prasad, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Rural Management and Library Services, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

• AT THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE
  Suneet Chopra, Joint Secretary, All India Agricultural Workers' Union, Delhi

• CONTRACT FARMING FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
  Sukhpal Singh, The Center for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

• LEARNING FROM PEOPLE
  Anil K. Gupta, Professor, Indian Institute of Management and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation, Ahmedabad 

• TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FARMING PRACTICES
  Bharat Dogra, independent journalist and columnist, New Delhi

• TRANSGENIC CROPS: A QUESTIONABLE OPTION?
  Kavitha Kuruganti, Member-Secretary, Coalition for a GM-Free India, Jaitu, Faridkot

• DIVERSIFICATION: A PLOY TO REDUCE SUPPORT TO AGRICULTURE?
  T.N. Prakash Kammardi, Professor of Agricultural Economics, and Editor, 'Hittalagida', University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangalore

• PUSHING BIG BOX RETAIL IN AGRICULTURE
  Dharmendra Kumar, India-FDI Watch, Delhi

• REVIVING AGRICULTURE
  Devinder Sharma, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, Delhi

• WAYS OF SEEING
  P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, 'The Hindu', Mumbai

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Iain Boal, Bhaskar Goswami and Harsh Sethi 

• FURTHER READING
  A select and relevant bibliography 

• COMMENT
  Festival Diary: Hi-jinks in Jaipur, received from Ananya Vajpeyi, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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