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Symbols of singularity, alienation and exclusion

How to nourish roots of pluralism in Indian society, Revised draft of the presentation at the national seminar on National Integration and Multiple Identities, Dialectics of Inclusiveness and Exclusion in

Towards an inclusive innovation model

for sustainable development, Paper presented at the Global Business Policy Council of A.T. Kearney – CEO’s Retreat, Dubai, December 9 – 11, 2007 Download

Breeding, benefits and bridges with modern science

Giving innovative farmers their due, Paper presented at the Second Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 29 October

Can protection of intellectual property rights be of any consequence to the poor people? in India\’s Liberalization Experience

Hostage to the WTO?, (Eds. Suparna Karmakar, Rajiv Kumar and Bibek Debroy), brought out by ICRIER; New Delhi, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007, p.256-293 Download

From Farmers’ First to Labourers’ First

Why do we still know so little? Presented at the Workshop on Farmer First Revisited: Farmer Participatory Research and Development Twenty Years on, 12-14 December 2007, Institute of Development Studies,

(With Arul George) Building capacity at community level for protecting the intellectual property rights in genetic resources and associated knowledge systems and cultural expressions, presented in the roundtable on Building Community Capacity

: A Roundtable on Practical Initiatives on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources, organised by WIPO, Geneva, 10-12 December 2007, Geneva Download

Conundrum of Creativity, compensation, conservation in India: How can intellectual property rights help grassroots innovators and traditional knowledge holders, published in Biodiversity and the Law

Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge (Ed.Charles R.McManis), London, Earthscan, 2007, Chapter 22, p.327-353 Download

Harnessing Community and Individual Knowledge in Plant Genetic Resources Management

Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration, Paper prepared for presentation at the National Scientific Symposium on Search for New Geneson 1st September 2006 at NASC in New Delhi. Published in Search

Learning from creative people

Scouting and Documentation of Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, paper presented at the GLOBAL GIAN: Building Global Value Chain around Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, Tianjin – China, May

Grassroots to Global

Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations, keynote lecture delivered at 10th MIT $100K Global Startup Workshop in Trondheim, Norway on 28th March 2007 Download