Survival through Innovations and Experimentation in High Risk Environment

Survival through Innovations and Experimentation in High Risk Environment, presented at the Confer¬ence on Global Forum on Poverty and Environment, BCAS, Dhaka, during July 22-24, 1993 Download

Sustainability strategy for transforming drylands in Andhra Pradesh:

Building upon local innovations, resource advantages and market potential, note prepared at the invitation of the Andhra Pradesh Government, 1993.  N 74 Download

(In collaboration with Kirit K Patel, Astad Pastakia, Vijaya Sherry Chand, Shailesh and members of Honey Bee Network) Secular Basis of Sustainable Spirit

Understanding Roots of Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots Level, presented at Congress on Traditional Sciences and Technologies of India, IIT, Bombay, on November 29, 1993 Download

(With P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand, Kirit K Patel, S.Murali Krishna) Contracts for Compensating Creativity

Framework for Using Market and Non-Market Instruments for Rewarding Grassroots Creativity and Innovation, published as the proceedings of the conference, Forum Belem I, \’A Third Millennium for Humanity? The Search for Paths of Sustainable Development (Eds., Dietrich E.Leihner and Thomas A.Mitschein) under the title, \”Contracts for \’Compensating\’ Creativity: Framework for Rewarding Grassroot Creativity and Innovation\”,…

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People’s Knowledge for Survival

Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Natural Resource Management, presented at the IFAD International Conference on Hunger & Poverty in Brussels during November 16-23, 1995 Download

(With Chokkakula Srinivas) Knowledge Centres/Networks for Empowering Knowledge rich-economically Poor Communities and Innovators

(With Chokkakula Srinivas) Knowledge Centres/Networks for Empowering Knowledge rich-economically Poor Communities and Innovators: DSS for Solution Augmentation for Sustainable Development, presented as invited paper in the Workshop on DSS organized by The United Nations University in Macau, February 26-March 8, 1996. — N89 Download

Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Networking at Grassroots Level:

Conserving Biodiversity through documentation, experimentation and value addition in local innovations for development and diffusion of sustainable technologies and institutions, published in Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research, Nos.37-38 1995-1996, pp 57-68. — N26, N97 Download

Roots of Creativity and Innovation in Indian Society

A Honey Bee Perspective; Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lecture delivered in Delhi on 30 August, 1996, organised by Society for Promotion of Wastelands development, Delhi, published in Wastelands News, Aug-Sep 1996, Vol..XII, No.1, pp.37-68 Download

Building Upon What Poor are Rich in

Honey Bee Network Linking Grassroots Innovations, Enterprise, Investments and Institutions, paper presented at the 22nd World Conference on \”Which Globalization: Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement\” in Santiago de Copmpostela, Spain, May 21-24, 1997, and published as \”The Honey Bee Network: Linking Knowledge-rich Grassroots Innovations\” in Development, Vol.40, No.4 (1997), pp.36-40 Download

Farmers’ Innovations for Sustainable Resource Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity, published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Food Security & Innovations

Successes and Lessons Learned at University of Hohenheim (Eds.Franz Heidhues/Andrea Fadani), Frankfurt, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp.97-112, 1997 Download