Lena Andorfer, Julia Kunze and Henrike Hoffmann investigated the current organizational structures of rice production as well as possibilities of marketing “Gandhakasala”, a traditionally grown rice species, in the domestic and export market. In the district of Wayanad, Kerala, India, more and more banana plantations replace rice fields, leading to a decrease of local agrobiodiversity especially of rice varieties.
Ms. Hoffmann, Ms. Kunze and Ms. Andorfer did not only carry out their research, but furthermore, they organized and conducted a stakeholder workshop. The workshop brought together farmers, mill owners, NGOs as well as traders. They discussed the potentials of marketing “Gandhakasala” rice, which could give local farmers a secure and sufficient income. An additional outcome of the students field work was the interest expressed by a German trader in the precious and nice scented rice.
After the presentations BioDIVA Team leader Prof. Martina Padmanabhan celebrated the success of the project with the student research team and the colloquium participants.
Preview: Handbook Cultivate Diversity!
The Rice Seed System in Wayanad.
Briefing Note 8, 2014
Feedback Loops - Multi-level stakeholder workshops in transdisciplinary research.
Briefing Note 7, 2014
Food for thought: Facing land use change in Wayanad.
Briefing Note 6, 2014 (Malayalam version)
"Cultivating Diversity": Results from the national level dialogue workshop. Briefing Note 5, 2014
Cultivate Diversity! A Handbook on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Agrobiodiversity Research. September 2013
Multi-stakeholder dialogue on land use: Transdisciplinary approaches to address landscape transformation in Kerala.
Briefing Note 4, 2013
Marketing Gandhakasala: Local varieties for livelihood options.
Briefing Note 3, 2013
Resilience in transformation: „A study into the capacity for resilience in indigenous communities in Wayanad“.
Briefing Note 2, 2013
Visions for Wayanad: „The land of paddy fields“.
Briefing Note 1, 2013
