2022. Richa Kumar. “The Battle for Science: Challenging the Hegemony of the Green Revolution in India.” Association for Asian Studies. Hawaii, March 28-29.
2021. Richa Kumar. “From Self-Reliance to Deepening Distress: The Ambivalence of the Yellow Revolution in India.” Soy in the Anthropocene, Symposion by the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, Kleiner Festsaal, 3 November 2021.
2020. Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Kumar, Richa Singh and Surbala Vaish "Familiarity breeds contempt: how old food hierarchies influence present food choices among marginalized communities in western Avadh, India". Submitted to the Food Studies Twitter Conference 2020 of the Association for the Study of Food and Society / Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, July 23-25.
2019. Richa Kumar, Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Singh and Surbala Vaish "Commodities and Nation Building: Groundnuts in Western Awadh, Uttar Pradesh." Submitted to the Republic of Plants Workshop, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) and co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT),Chennai, 10-14 December.
2019. Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Singh, and Richa Kumar "Towards a just food future: Learnings from the food transition experience of a marginal community in rural Uttar Pradesh, India." Submitted to the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2019, London, August 28-30.
2019. Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Kumar, Surbala Vaish and Richa Singh. “Food Geographies of Trouble in the Anthropocene: A Growing Nutritional and Ecological Crisis in Rural Western Awadh, Uttar Pradesh, India.” Submitted to the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2019, London, August 28-30.
2019. Sudha Nagavarapu, Anand Prakash, Richa Kumar, Ankush Agrawal, Richa Singh and Surbala Vaish. “Contested Narratives of Dietary Transitions in India: Examining the Incommensurability of Macro and Micro Datasets.” Submitted to the 4th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week 2019 Conference, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Hyderabad, June 26-28.
2019. Richa Kumar, Richa Singh, Sudha Nagavarapu, Surbala Vaish, Ankush Agrawal and Anand Prakash. “Remaking Landscapes, Reshaping Palates and Transforming Diets in Western Awadh, Uttar Pradesh, India”, Submitted to the Agricultural History Society Conference on Power in Agricultural History, Washington DC, June 6-8.
2019. Richa Kumar, Richa Singh, Sudha Nagavarapu, Surbala Vaish. “Remaking Town and Hinterland:
Reshaping Palates and Transforming Diets in Western Awadh, Uttar Pradesh, India”, Submitted to the Urban-Arc 2019 Conference on City and the Region, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, January 10-12.
2018. Richa Kumar, Sudha Nagavarapu, Surbala Vaish, Richa Singh, Ankush Agrawal, and Anand Prakash. “Untangling Under-Nutrition: Agriculture, Dietary Diversity and the Hollowing out of Rural India.” Submitted to the Sustainability and Development Conference, University of Michigan, November 9-11.
2018. Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Kumar, Surbala Vaish and Richa Singh. “The Commons as Place, Resource, Usage, Memory: Perspectives from Western Awadh”, Submitted to the 6th NRAS International Conference on Whither Rural Commons: State Policy, Natural Resources and Agrarian Change, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, September 20-22.
2018. Richa Kumar, Sudha Nagavarapu, Surbala Vaish, Richa Singh, Ankush Agrawal and Anand Prakash. “Green Revolution Transitions and Food and Nutritional security in Western Awadh, India” presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 10-14.
2018. Sudha Nagavarapu, Richa Kumar, Surbala Vaish, Richa Singh, Ankush Agrawal and Anand Prakash. “From diversity to monotony, fluctuation to stability? Tracking food transitions and their impact on nutrition in western Awadh, Uttar Pradesh”, Submitted to the International Conference on Critical Public Health Consequences of the Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and South East Asia, Organised by PHRN, PHM, JSA and WPHNA, New Delhi, March 29-30.
2017. "Scientific Notions of Productivity and Sociocultural Vulnerabilities in Agriculture" presented at the International Conference on Burning Fields, Biofuels and Bettering Farm Life: Pursuing Responsible Research and Innovation through Mutual Learning, New Delhi, September 11-13.
2016. "‘Scientific’ Evidence and Agrarian Policy Making in India" presented at the 4th LASSNET International Conference on Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth, New Delhi, December 10-12.
2016. "Ideals of Development" presented at the International Conference on Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Agriculture: The Problem of Rice Straw Burning in Punjab, Chandigarh, Punjab, November 28-30.
2016. “Agricultural Marketing in India: Making Markets Work for Farmers” presented at the International Seminar on Revitalising the Rural: Rethinking Rural and Agricultural Policies, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, September 27-29.
2015. “Assessing Accountability: Mandi Traders, Choupals, and Commodity Markets in Malwa, India" presented at the Annual American Anthropological Association Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 18-22.
2015. “Indispensable Intermediaries: Choupals, Cooperatives and Traders in Malwa” presented at the Conference on Marginal Ecologies, Ambedkar University Delhi, February 28-March 1.
2014. "Monocultures and Malnutrition" presented at the International Conference on Publics, Politics and Technoscience in Contemporary Indian Contexts, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, November 17-18.
2014. “Tracing the History of the Malthusian Juggernaut: Preliminary findings from archival material of the International Wheat Conferences organised by the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome (1930-31)” presented at the Conference on Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition and Development: The UN FAO in a Global Context, University of Basel, Switzerland, August 29-30.
