One Day National Conference on Law and Agriculture: Prospects and Issues’ is being organised by the Centre for Law and Agriculture, Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirappalli in collaboration with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tiruchirappalli on May 5, 2023.
About TNNLU
Tamil Nadu National Law University (TNNLU) was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu by an Act of the State Legislature (Act No. 9 of 2012) to provide quality legal education.
About the Centre for Law and Agriculture
The ‘Centre for Law and Agriculture’ was established in TNNLU as a university-level research centre in the year 2021. The Centre was established with the objective to conduct interdisciplinary research and provide research support in policy-making and to create legal awareness amongst the various stakeholders of the agricultural sector of the country. The Centre has been established with funding from the Government of Tamil Nadu.
About Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) was established in 1971, fulfilling the responsibilities of teaching, research extension and agribusiness activities for the benefit of agricultural stakeholders.
About the National Conference
Being majorly an agrarian economy, 54.6 % of India’s population is engaged in agriculture and allied activities (Census 2011), accounting for 18.8 % of India’s Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2021-22. There has been significant growth in agriculture-allied sectors including animal husbandry, fishery, poultry, and agri-business. Being a sector that acts as a source of food supply, supports the livelihood of many, contributes to the national income, supports industrial development, and facilitates commercialization, it requires effective management through legal and regulatory mechanisms.
Academic attempts for the development of legal knowledge in this sector have been complex since it requires an understanding of the interrelation of relevant concepts and theories in the fields of agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, geography, science, technology, and law amongst others.
The complexity is further exacerbated since the discipline demands understanding the requirements of innumerable stakeholders including farmers, technocrats, agricultural labourers, insurance companies, banks, agricultural and allied industries, consumers of agricultural produce, agricultural research institutions, animals including cattle, the state, environment, and the population of the nation and the world at large.
Further, agriculture exists in a space that interconnects several related areas of law like constitutional law, administrative law, international law, human rights law, labour law, the law of contracts, commercial law, land law, intellectual property and technology law, and environmental law.
Therefore, the national conference aims to provide a platform for deliberation on various standpoints of researchers from diverse fields of knowledge to facilitate a deeper understanding of the role of law and policy in addressing the current and future challenges that the agricultural and allied sectors face and may face in the foreseeable future in India and the world.
The themes and sub-themes of the conference are chosen with an objective to facilitate and encourage transdisciplinary research inputs into the field of law and agriculture.
Themes and Sub-Themes
Agriculture, Law and Development
- Agricultural law and legal theories
- Definition of agriculture and legal challenges
- Agriculture, law, and liberalisation
- Law, policy, and the role of governmental institutions in development of agriculture Agriculture and the Indian Constitution
- Agriculture and the judiciary
- Agriculture and land reforms
- Regulation of organic agriculture
- PSUs and agriculture
- Agriculture and economics
- Corporatisation of agriculture
- Food laws, standards, and consumerism
- Law and contract farming
- Forestry and environmental laws
Agricultural Stakeholders and Legal Rights
- Agriculture and human rights
- Farmers’ rights and law
- Agricultural labour and law
- Gender, agriculture, and law
- Law, food security, distribution, and nutrition
- Law governing associations and agriculture
- Law and policy, and the livestock sector
- Agricultural finance and law
- Agricultural marketing and law
- Agricultural subsidies and financial aid
- Agri-food business and rural entrepreneurship
IPR and Agriculture
- Agriculture, agro-biodiversity, technology, and law
- Legislations and reforms of input management (legislations related to fertilizer, seed, pests, pesticides and GMO, and agricultural biotechnology amongst others)
- Plant variety protection and agriculture
- Seed protection and sustainability
Agriculture and Environment
- Law, policy, and sustainable agriculture
- Agro-forestry, biofuels, and law
- Law, policy, and agricultural pollution
- Law, policy, and agricultural waste management
- Law and agricultural industries
- Interstate disputes in agriculture and environment International law and transboundary issues in agriculture and environment
- Environmental regulation on mining and agricultural zoning
Note: These sub-themes are illustrative in nature and not exhaustive. Contributors may contribute to any sub-theme within the broad theme of the conference.
Who may Contribute?
Bonafide students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses in any recognized university in India or abroad, research scholars, professionals, policymakers, academicians, practitioners, independent researchers, and agricultural stakeholders.
Submission Guidelines
- All contributions must be in the form of research/review articles in English. It should be original and neither published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Co-authorship is permitted to a maximum of 2 authors.
- Word Limit – Abstract: Not more than 350 words; Full Paper: 5,000-8,000 words (exclusive of footnotes).
- Abstracts and full papers with a similarity percentage exceeding 15% in Turnitin shall be summarily rejected.
- Font: Times New Roman, Font size: 12 (main text), Footnotes: 10, Line Spacing: 1.5, Alignment: Justified.
- All contributions must use Bluebook 21st edition or APA style of citation.
- The abstracts shall go through a blind peer review before being selected for presentation at the conference. The organisers reserve the right to reject any paper with content that is defamatory, offensive, or unrelated to the theme of the conference, etc.
- Abstracts must be submitted in both .pdf and .doc/.docx formats through the link provided on page number 7 of the brochure.
- The full papers of the selected abstracts must be emailed to claconference@tnnlu.ac.in in both .pdf and .doc/.docx formats.
- Certificates for presentation shall be provided to the presenters. Selected papers shall be published in the form of conference proceedings. The best paper(s) shall be awarded.
Note: The registration link will be shared after the intimation of the selected abstracts.
Registration Fees
- For students and research scholars: INR 500
- For others: INR 1000
- Accommodation per day: INR 1000
Important Dates
- Last date for submission of abstract – April 7, 2023
- Intimation of acceptance of abstract-April 13, 2023
- Last date for registration- April 17, 2023
- Last date for submission of full paper- May 2, 2023
- Date of the national conference- May 5, 2023
How to Submit?
The contributors may submit abstracts through the link provided at the end of the post.
Contact Information
In case of any queries, please write to claconference@tnnlu.ac.in or contact
- Mr. Nideesh Kumar T V- 9942566901
- Dr. S. Selvam- 9487284453
- Ms. Kusumika Sen- 8420141611
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