Biotechnology for a Second Green Revolution in India: Socioeconomic, Political, and Public Policy Issues

About

N. Chandrasekhara Rao is currently Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) New Delhi. Earlier he was Faculty at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) Hyderabad. He was Fulbright Visiting Fellow in Cornell University Ithaca USA during 2010-11. His research interests include: strategy of agricultural development value chains technological change and innovations labour market and poverty reduction. Earlier he published: Biotechnology in Indian Agriculture: Potential Performance and Concerns (Academic Foundation New Delhi). His latest book was: Organised Retailing and Agri-Business: Implications of New Supply Chains on the Indian Farm Economy (Springer India New Delhi). Carl E. Pray is a Distinguished Professor in the Agricultural Food and Resource Economics Department the School for Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. The focus of his research is agricultural science and technology policy in China South Asia Africa and Latin America. Dr Pray is the President of the International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR). The results of his research have been published in 80 journal articles including Science Nature the American Journal of Agricultural Economics Economic Development and Cultural Change Research Policy and in 45 book chapters.Ronald Herring has taught political economy and political ecology at Cornell University since 1991 as Professor of Government and International Professor of Agriculture and Rural Development. Ron has been faculty advisor to Asha Cornell and worked on production and teaching of the MOOC Science and Politics of the GMO (EdX/CornellX 2016 2017). He has been editor of Comparative Political Studies and remains on its editorial board among others. Among his writings are several books including: Transgenics and the Poor (Routledge 2007; 2008) awarded The Dudley Seers Memorial Prize (London 2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Food Politics and Society (2015).