Agriculture as the backbone of all civilizations with reference to the Indian subcontinent. Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined as socio-political- economic features including centralization, domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of Labour, culturally ingrained ideologies of progress, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionisms. Modern science began to develop in the early modern period, and that too in the scientific revolution of the 16th and the 17th century in Europe.
In such complex back-drop the panel is designed to cover the under noted areas/features keeping in consideration of past and present situation of India and its subcontinent encompassing Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, and other South-East Asian countries.
- Genesis of land-based civilization;
- Transition to modernity from tradition;
- Growth of land-based enterprises;
- Crisis of modernity in farm sectors;
- Human rights and fundamental freedom;
- Global-biodiversity strategy;
- Cultural diversity vis-a-vis biodiversity;
- Bio-diversity and sustainable issues;
- Technological socialization and people’s participation;
- People’s right and indigenous knowledge systems;
- Intellectual Property Eights and its implications.
