Farming Futures

Edited by:   C. Shambu Prasad (Institute of Rural Management Anand India), Ajit Kanitkar (VikasAnvesh Foundation, India), Deborah Dutta (Institute of Rural Management Anand, India)
Imprint:   Routledge India
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   775g
ISBN:   9781032310985
ISBN 10:   1032310987
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

C. Shambu Prasad is Professor, Strategic Management and Social Sciences, the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), India. His expertise and research include several interdisciplinary fields such as social entrepreneurship, science and technology studies, rural livelihoods, innovation management, managing producer collectives, and sustainable agriculture. He has been a Fulbright senior research fellow at Cornell University. He founded IRMA’s incubator in 2016 and mentors and advises several social enterprises, producer organisations, and start-ups. He is a co-editor of Farming Futures: Emerging Social Enterprises in India (2019). He is a member of expert committees of the Government of India on science and technology and agriculture. He currently coordinates a project on “Small Farm Incomes” that explores co-creation of knowledge in agriculture by academicians and development practitioners. Ajit Kanitkar is a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Udaipur, India. With a career spanning decades of work in the development sector, he was a senior advisor and researcher at VikasAnvesh Foundation, Pune. He has also served as the programme officer at Ford Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, both in New Delhi, and a faculty member at IRMA. He is associated with many civil society organisations across the country. His co-edited book in 2019, Farming Futures: Emerging Social Enterprises in India (2019), is a unique collection of 15 contemporary case studies documenting in detail social enterprises in agriculture. In 2021, he co-edited Sowing Impact: Agri Entrepreneurs in India Stories of Innovation, Hope & Resilience. Deborah Dutta was a Senior Research Fellow at the IRMA, India, following her PhD from the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai. Her research areas span the field of environmental education and sustainable transitions with a focus on community-practice-based approaches such as urban farming. Her work explores community engagement, socio-technical systems, and sustainable food systems. She is a member of the South Asian Learning Sciences Collective and a 2021–22 fellow of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Leadership programme hosted by Engagement Global, Germany. She is also the recipient of a grant under “Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures” (TESF), a research network supported by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).