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...