Rice Productivity and Food Security in India

This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield. The study also discusses the importance of SRI in achieving higher rice productivity and food security. Conducted on behalf of the Government of India's Ministry of Agriculture from October 2014 to March 2016, the study collected detailed and extensive household-level data. 

Poornima Varma is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). She holds a PhD in economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a recipient of a US Fulbright scholarship in 2006 and was subsequently a visiting research scholar at the Department of Economics of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA from 2007 to 2008. Prior to joining the IIMA she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Policy Studies of TERI University, New Delhi. She has also worked with the Centre for WTO Studies (CWS) of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Her work chiefly focuses on international trade, agriculture, environment and the adoption of agricultural technologies. She has extensively published in top peer-reviewed journals for agricultural and applied economics.