In September 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) and the Foundation for Agrarian Studies entered into a partnership project titled “Understanding Agrarian Relations in India.” Under this project, RLS supports various activities of the Foundation, such as research for theme-based articles to be published in the Review of Agrarian Studies, and seminars and workshops to discuss and disseminate the findings from FAS research.

In 2014 and 2015, six articles on “In Focus” themes titled “Interviews with Leaders of Peasant Movements in India” and “Land and Forest Rights” were published in the Review of Agrarian Studies. An important event in this partnership project was a seminar titled “Agriculture, Productivity, and Environment with a Special Focus on Karnataka,” held in Whitefield on November 8 and 9, 2014. The seminar was attended by an audience of academics from different universities, activists from rural organisations, other scholars and policy makers.

As part of this collaboration, a special section on the outcome of the Paris Conference on Climate Change and its impact on agriculture was published in the journal in December 2015. Two more In Focus themes are in preparation, the first called “Discrepancies,” with Sanjay Reddy as guest editor, and the second with the working title “Agrarian Development and Social Inequalities in Latin America,” with Guillermo Neiman as guest editor.