The Future: A Sustainable and Resilient Rice System in India (week 6)

Click the picture to see the larger version of our Poster Project on what we want for the Future of Rice in India.

Big thanks to my teammates all grading period:

Nicholas Panayi
Samuel van Rozelaar
Parth Shah
Adrien Krouse

TEEB Analytics regarding SRI within the Indian Rice Production System (week 5)

TEEB Analytics regarding SRI within the Indian Rice Production System

Introduction

When designing an analysis (typology) to evaluate the hidden or overlooked aspects of a farming system one must look at the various impacts on the Health & Skills, Society, Economy, and Environmental spheres. These four realms are interconnected and many of the items to be discussed will need to be viewed under each subset to see the true benefit or cost of the externalities mentioned. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methodology to be discussed in this paper will be viewed from the lens of two distinct stakeholders: that of the Government/Research Institutes and that of the Community/Farmers in Indian rice production. SRI has promising results in terms of environmental benefits and is actively being introduced in India, which is why this papers aim is to investigate the hidden costs and benefits further within the Indian context.

A Culture of Change: Change Agents in Indian Rice Production (week 4)

HAFED, a Historical Perspective on Change Agents in India

HAFED, or The Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited, began as a grassroots initiative by the farmers in the Haryana State of India who banded together to create a place-based cooperative where they could sort, manage, and sell their produce. The organization grew over the years as more pieces of the supply chain were added. They purchased inputs like fertilizer and seeds and resold them to other farmers creating a retail section of the co-op, and added processing mills, marketing agents, and storage and transportation agencies, all the while the co-op grew in influence and power. While the HAFED does not only work within the rice production system, they do specialize in it. They have multiple rice mills and specialized marketing schemes just for rice and work with farmers to track yields of different varieties.

Governance Relationships within Indian Rice Production (week 3)

1. Map different kinds of formal and informal (governmental) arrangements impacting the food system

Global Embeddedness and Resilience in Indian Rice Production (Week 2)

Question 1: To what extent is Rice in India embedded in and shaped by globalized sets of relations, such as global commodity markets and the agroecosystem?

Rice Production Systems in India Background (week 1)

In my current class, Social Transformations Towards Sustainable Food Systems, we are focusing on a specific crop in a specific region. My group chose Rice production in India. Each week we then focus on a different aspect of that food system. The first week we just gathered background information, the second week we looked at the extent to which Rice is embedded in and shaped by globalized sets of relations, such as global commodity markets and the agroecosystem and how that effects resilience, and this week (week 3) we are looking at governance, actors, and relationships. So, I thought I'd start posting our projects/reports. Some are PPTs, which I will attempt to make into pictures, and the rest will be some version of a paper. I'll post each one separately so as not to get confusing. We also, just to make things more difficult, only have 2 class periods to create these and then on Fridays, we meet as a larger group and have to pull 4 different groups together into a new presentation. We only get 2 hours to do this.

The Background we pulled is rather messy. We have a group folder we put things in, but here's an idea of the information we are working with...