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CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
03 November 2020

Podcast on Sustainable organic farming and questions of value

Listen to a podcast featuring Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin on Sustainable organic farming and questions of value 

Shaila Galvin

Shaila Seshia Galvin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Affiliated with CIES

 

In a podcast with with Renee Manderville, Philip Gooding, and Archisman Chaudhuri, from IOWC, Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her anthropological and sociological work on organic Basmati rice farming in the Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, India. She explores how a locally produced commodity acquires new meanings through organic certification procedures, as well as the socio-economic and cultural implications of such agrarian practices for sustainable trade and development.

Access the podcast here.

 

 

 

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