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M.A.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Dr. Prachi Bansal

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Key Expertise Agrarian Studies, labour dynamics, bonded labour, food security, the global economy of pulses, land acquisition, care work, inequality, inflation, artificial intelligence and its implications on work.

M.A.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Biography

Prachi Bansal completed her Ph.D. in Economics from the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India (2017-2022). Her doctoral research titled “Labour Absorption in Indian Agriculture since Independence: A Study based on Farm Enterprise Data” delved into crucial aspects of Indian agriculture’s workforce dynamics. 

She has participated in large-scale socio-economic field surveys in over 17 villages across Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Udaipur. She does primary field survey based research and is trained in all major  secondary large-scale datasets.

Prachi Bansal has a rich and diverse experience in various research positions and has served as an Agricultural Statistician at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Thailand and has worked on important projects related to data anonymization techniques, women’s participation in agriculture, and Sustainable Development Goals.She also worked as a Consultant for the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, where she contributed to projects focusing on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking, using knowledge to accelerate progress in their elimination. She was awarded a competitive seed grant of 10,000 USD from the International Labour Organization for her outstanding research proposal on “Modern Forms of Debt-Bondage in Rural India"". She has also received the Azim Premji Foundation Research Funding programme Grant (2021) for her work on the care economy in  India.

She is the Disability Support  Committee Representative for JSGP and had conducted India's first workshop for teaching quantitative methods using R software to the blind in Azim Premji University in 2023. She has been a regular visiting faculty at the Asian College of Journalism since 2017 in Chennai to teach ""Quantitative Methods using R"" to journalists in the Bloomberg Program. She recently conducted a workshop on NSS data exploration in the University of Kashmir for faculty and post-graduate students of the Economics department.

International Trade

Mathematics for Economics

Python Programming

Economics of Poverty and Inequality

Statistical Analysis using R

Statistical Methods and Data Analysis (Coursera) Masters in Public Policy (Live Sessions for Coursera)

Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Economics and Public Policy

“Evaluating Agricultural Labour Data Challenges: Situation Assessment Survey Data vs Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops Data”, accepted in the Indian Journal of Agriculture Economics (2024)

“Fertilizer Decontrol in India: Making of a Crisis”, 2024, Vikas Rawal and Prachi Bansal, in a book titled “India’s Economy 2024: Disparities in Fractured Democracy”, edited by Satyaki Roy, Aakar Books

AI is sexist: Here’s how?, June 9, 2024, published in the Indian Express, Read here: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ai-is-sexist-workforce-gender-wage-gap-data-feminism-9380584/, featured in the Top 5 Opinion Pieces across all newspapers for the weekend by The Quint. See here: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/sunday-view-the-best-weekend-opinion-reads-curated-just-for-you-151

“A vegetable triumvirate, inflation and the takeaway”, May 23, 2024, published in The Hindu. Read here: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-vegetable-triumvirate-inflation-and-the-takeaway/article68204706.ece

Research Bulletin in the Agrarian South Network on “The Political Economy of Fer-tilizer Crisis in India”, Issue No: 13, Mar-Apr, 2022, http://www.agrariansouth. org/2022/05/17/asn-research-bulletin-mar-apr-2022/

“Economic Liberalisation and Fertiliser Policies”, (co-authored with Vikas Rawal), in a book titled “Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture After Economic Liberalization”, edited by R. Ramakumar, Tulika Books, 9788195055906 (October,2022)

Bansal, P. (2023, April 14-April 17). Lead Instructor and Co-Organizer, Data analysis for the Visually Impaired Students with R, four day workshop at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

Bansal, P. (2022, November 28–December 2). SDG 5a1 compilation for Bhutan and Indonesia, technical meetings to compile farm-based SDG indicators and anonymised geospatial data layers, FAORAP, Bangkok.

“Economic Liberalisation and Fertiliser Policies” (co-authored with Vikas Rawal), Social Scientist, September-October, 2020, ISSN 0970-0293.

“COVID-19 in Rural India-XV: Agricultural Markets in Disarray”, April 17, 2020. Read here: https://www.newsclick.in/COVID-19- Rural-India-Agricultural-Markets- Disarray or https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/04/16/ agricultural-inputs/

“COVID-19 in Rural India- I: Harvesting and Selling Anxiety Grips Farmers in Haryana’s Birdhana Village”, April 7, 2020. Read here: https://www.newsclick.in/COVID-19-Rural- India-Harvesting-Selling-Anxiety-Grips Farmers-Haryana

“Covid-19: India’s Lockdown through the Eyes of French Media”, May 5, 2020. Read here: https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-indias-lockdown-through-the-eyes-of-french-media/

Bansal, P. (2020, January 1). Sustainable Development Goals Indicator 2.3.1, and 2.3.2 related to productivity and incomes of small – scale food producers, training on SDG-2 (End hunger, achieve food security, and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture), National Survey Systems Training Academy, NSSO.

“Prevalence of Undernourishment in Indian States: Explorations Based on the NSS 68th Round Data” (co-authored with Vikas Rawal and Vaishali Bansal) as Special Article in Economic and Political Weekly on April 13, 2019, Volume 54, Issue No: 15, ISSN Print: 0012-9976. Read here https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/15/ special-articles/prevalence-undernourishment-indian-states.html

“Land Acquisition and Income Disparities: Case Study of a Village in Jharia, Jharkhand” (co-authored with Vikas Rawal and Vaishali Bansal), published in

“Whither Rural India? Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in Contemporary India : A Festschrift for Venkatesh Athreya”, May 20, 2019, Tulika Books, also published internationally by the Columbia University Press, edited by A. Narayanamoorthy and R.V. Bhavani

“Chickpea: Transformation in Production Conditions” (co-authored with Vikas Rawal), The Global Economy of Pulses, (2019) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Read here: http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf

“Pulses of Phaseolus and Vigna Genera” (co-authored with Vikas Rawal and Vaishali Bansal), The Global Economy of Pulses, (2019), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Read here: http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf

“Dry Pea: Production Driven by Demand for Animal Feed” (co-authored with Vaishali Bansal), The Global Economy of Pulses, (2019, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Read here: http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf

“Pulses of the Vicia Genus”, The Global Economy of Pulses, (2019), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Read here: http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf

“Surgical Strike on Employment: The record of the first Modi government”, Jun 4, 2019, co-authored with Vikas Rawal. Read here: https://www.networkideas.org/featured-articles/2019/06/surgical-strike-on-employment-the-record-of-the-first-modi-government/

Bansal, P. (2019, May 1). Sustainable Development Goals Indicator 2.3.1, 2.3.2 and 2.4.1 related to productivity and incomes of small – scale food producers,Introductory workshop on SDG indicators related to food and agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, New Delhi.

“Lives of Peasants in India”, Dec 1, 2017. Read here: https://www.newsclick.in/author/Prachi Provision of Training 1. Bansal, P. (2024, June 25- July 2). Lead Instructor and Co-Organizer, NSS Data Exploration using R, seven day workshop in the post-graduate department of Economics, for the faculty, Ph.D scholars, and Master’s students, University of Kashmir, Hazaratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Coverage in media: https://kashmirreader.com/2024/06/27/proficiency-in-data-analysis-indispensable-for-researchers-says-expert-at-ku/

Bansal, P. (2016, December 16-22). Research Methodology Workshop organized by the Society for Social and Economic Research, New Delhi

“Deborah Brautigam (2015), Will Africa Feed China?”, Oct 17, 2017 in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. (A longer version ofthe above review was published on the Indianstatistics.org. Read here: http: //indianstatistics.org/2017/10/20/land-grab.html
Key Expertise Agrarian Studies, labour dynamics, bonded labour, food security, the global economy of pulses, land acquisition, care work, inequality, inflation, artificial intelligence and its implications on work.
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