The specific focus of the discussion will be on ‘Agricultural collectivities and human rights: A group approach to poverty reduction and women’s empowerment’.

BINA AGARWAL is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi she has held distinguished positions at many universities in the USA and UK and lectured world-wide. She was Harvard’s first Daniel Ingalls Visiting Professor and a research fellow at the Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government. She has taught at Delhi, Harvard, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and the University of Minnesota where she held the Winton Chair. She has also been Vice-President of the International Economic Association, was elected the first Southern President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, served on the Board of the Global Development Network from its inception till 2006, and is a founder member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics. Currently she serves on the UN Committee for Development Policy and the Prime Minister’s National Council for Land Reforms. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several international academic journals. More...

The Maastricht University India Institute (MUII) is a unique India knowledge hub in Europe which hosts leading researchers in Maastricht and India who collaborate on increasing our understanding of contemporary Indian business and industry. The Institute will take on a leading role as an intermediary in building new strategic networks among researchers as well as among business partners in India and Europe. More...