Prachi Bansal

Areas of Interest & Expertise

Agrarian Change
Labour Economics
Food Security
Gender
Computational Methods in Economics
Data, Development, and Democracy
Disability Inclusion

Biography

Prachi completed her PhD from the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She also has a master’s degree in Economics from JNU.

Her research interests include field-based research and working with large-scale unit-level datasets. Her research spans agrarian issues, food security, labour, and land acquisition. Her PhD thesis was on labour absorption in Indian agriculture.

She has extensive experience working with UN organisations. She has worked as an Agricultural Statistician at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, Thailand. She developed expertise in data-anonymisation techniques, the use of geospatial data, handling micro-data for different countries, and calculating different Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators.

She has worked with the International Labour Organisation, Geneva as a consultant on issues related to bonded labour, child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking.

She has been teaching quantitative methods at the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ), Chennai since 2017. Presently, she is also working on making data analysis easier and accessible for visually impaired scholars through the use of innovative pedagogical methods.

She has presented her research work on various platforms, including the University of Oxford, International Labour Organisation (ILO), as a keynote speaker at the International Year of Pulses 2016 Regional Dialogue for Asia and the Pacific, Mongolia.

Publications

Chapters in Edited Books

Bansal, P. (Forthcoming). Female labour absorption in Indian agriculture: A study based on farm-enterprise data. In M.A. Madi, & A. Puyana (Eds.), (untitled). World Economic Association (WEA).
Bansal, P. & Rawal, V. (2022). Economic liberalisation and fertiliser policies. In R. Ramakumar (Ed.), Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture After Economic Liberalization. Tulika Books.
Rawal, V., Bansal, P., & Bansal, V. (2019). Land acquisition and income disparities: Case study of a village in Jharia, Jharkhand. In A. Narayanamoorthy, R.V. Bhavani, & S. Sujatha (Eds.), Whither Rural India? Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in Contemporary India. Tulika Books.
Rawal, V., & Bansal, P. (2019). Chickpea: Transformation in production conditions. In V. Rawal, & D.K. Navarro (Eds.), The Global Economy of Pulses (pp.21 – 36). Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf
Bansal, P., Rawal, V., & Bansal, V. (2019). Pulses of Phaseolus and Vigna genera. In In V. Rawal, & D.K. Navarro (Eds.), The Global Economy of Pulses (pp.39 – 71). Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf
Bansal, P., & Bansal, V. (2019). Dry pea: Production driven by demand for animal feed. In V. Rawal, & D.K. Navarro (Eds.), The Global Economy of Pulses (pp.99 – 108). Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf
Bansal, P. (2019). Pulses of the Vicia genus. In V. Rawal, & D.K. Navarro (Eds.), The Global Economy of Pulses (pp.109 – 114). Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/i7108en/I7108EN.pdf

Journal Articles

Bansal, P., Garimella, S., & Arora, S. (2022). The political economy of fertilizer crisis in India. Agrarian South Network Research Bulletin,13, 06 – 10. http://www.agrariansouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ASN_RB_Mar-Apr_2022-_Final.pdf
Bansal, P., & Rawal, V. (2020). Economic liberalisation and fertiliser policies. Social Scientist, 48(9 – 10), 33 – 54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26978914
Rawal, V., Bansal, V., & Bansal, P. (2019). Prevalence of undernourishment in Indian states: Explorations based on the NSS 68^th Round Data. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(15), 35 – 45. https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/15/special-articles/prevalence-undernourishment-indian-states.html

Book Review

Bansal, P. (2017). [Review of the book Will Africa Feed China?, by D. Brautigam] Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 6(2), 291 – 294. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976017731849 (A longer version of the review was published on Indianstatistics.org: http://indianstatistics.org/2017/10/20/land-grab.html)

Online Articles

Bansal, P. (2020, May 05). Covid-19: India’s lockdown through the eyes of French media. Corona Policy Impact. https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-indias-lockdown-through-the-eyes-of-french-media/
Bansal, P. (2020, April 21). COVID-19 in rural India-XV: Agricultural markets in disarray. NewsClick. https://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail — 34958.htm
Bansal, P. (2020, April 07). COVID-19 in Rural India- I: Harvesting and selling anxiety grips farmers in Haryana’s Birdhana village. NewsClick. https://www.newsclick.in/COVID-19-Rural-India-Harvesting-Selling-Anxiety-Grips%20Farmers-Haryana
Rawal, V., and Bansal, P. (2019, June 14). Surgical strike on employment: The record of the first Modi government. Deshabhimani. https://www.deshabhimani.com/english/articles/surgical-strike-on-employment-the-record-of-the-first-modi-government/901
Bansal, P. (2017, December 27). Lives of peasants in India. NewsClick. https://www.newsclick.in/lives-peasants-india‑8

Monographs

Bansal, P., and Rawal, V. (2020). Economic Liberalisation and Fertiliser Policies, Society for Social and Economic Research (SSER), New Delhi. https://www.indianstatistics.org/ssermonograph/2020/10/23/fertilizer-policies.html
Rawal, V., Bansal, P., and Bansal, V. (2016). Land Acquisition and Income Disparities: Case Study of a Village in Jharia, Jharkhand, Society for Social and Economic Research (SSER), New Delhi. https://archive.indianstatistics.org/sserwp/sserwp1601.pdf

Provision of training

Bansal, P. (Forthcoming). Data analysis for the visually impaired, Azim Premji University,
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.
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.
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.