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Why Farmers Aren't Adopting Natural Farming: Hidden Costs, Embodied Erasure, and Final Yield Production in Anantapur, India

  • by Christopher R Collier

 GGG Ph.D. graduate (2026) Dr. Padmaja Kota Iyer recently presented her doctoral research "Why Farmers Aren't Adopting Natural Farming: Hidden Costs, Embodied Erasure, and Final Yield Production in Anantapur, India” in an online seminar with academic and community partners. The dissertation and the presentation represented an exemplary collaborative research approach in which Dr. Iyer worked with local non-governmental organizations to design and implement her study including practical recommendations to improve the health and well-being of women farmers in the region.