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<p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Rajeswari
Raina</span></b></p><div>
</div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial;">National Institute of Science, Technology and
Development Studies</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">, India</span></i><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"></span></p>
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India<span> </span></span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;">
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<div><b>Abstract:</b>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Policy concerns in Indian agriculture are no longer confined
to increasing productivity. Political leaders and policy makers demand that
scientists pay more attention to environmental degradation and limited
incremental response to production technologies.<span> </span>But there is little discussion on the content of these
technologies and the ways in which they are generated.<span> </span>An analysis of the evolution of
public sector agricultural R&D, especially the ways in which credentials
for selection and authorisation of expertise as well as the autonomy granted to
experts are formulated and practiced, reveals how the distance between
production and the environment is institutionalized.<span> </span>Despite voicing concern about the environment, policy
instruments repeatedly reinforce expertise that pitches agricultural
technologies against the environment.<span>
</span>Drawing upon the example of diverse rainfed cropping systems, and the
case of pest management in particular, the paper elaborates on different
dimensions of expertise. It argues for a different understanding of expertise,
within a framework of agriculture <i>in</i>
the environment.</span><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT";"><span> </span></span>
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<div><b>Biography</b>:
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Rajeswari S. Raina<b> </b>(Ph.D. Economics – Centre
for Development Studies)<b> </b>is a<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Scientist with the National Institute of
Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), CSIR, New Delhi.<span> </span>She has a background in the sciences
and economics, and is a keen student of the interface between development
policy and scientific knowledge. Current research focuses on policy and
institutional reform, as well as capacities for (a) innovation for inclusive
development in India and China, (b) bio-innovation systems, and (c) changes in
agriculture-environment policies, knowledge and practice.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><span> <br><br></span></span>
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