STS 25.2_Special Issue on RRI in Global South.pdf
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… Representation and Participation: Bureaucratic Steering of Biofuel Research 325 MAHENDRA SHAHARE and NAVEEN THAYYIL Consensus or Contestation: Reflections on Governance of Innovation in a Context of Heterogeneous Knowledges 341 GOVERT VALKENBURG Visit http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sts Free access to tables of contents and abstracts. Responsible Research and Innovation in the Global South: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and the Pursuit of Symmetry POONAM PANDEY, GOVERT VALKENBURG, ANNAPURNA … is being burnt in large amounts on the farmlands in the northern parts of India. Over the course of two years, we conducted a number of meetings. We enrolled various stakeholders, and we used various formats for the meetings-dialogue, seminar, workshop, conference and public discussion. Our final conference held in September 2017 provided a pivotal moment towards this special issue. The involvement of stakeholders and the inclusion of multiple perspectives is not a straightforward matter. The … plants, the sap from their roots, the microclimate, this would ensure no insects came. RK: Is this related to the principle of biodiversity? BBT: Yes, diversity is the second principle of nature. Grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, timber, vegetables, spices, medicinal plants, fodder, roots and herbs, scented plants are all to be found in nature. When nature provides all of them, why should we grow only one monocrop? Why are our policies promoting only cereals or sugarcane? Or even a pigeon pea …