The Foundation has established the Pandemic Studies Unit that will focus on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on agricultural production, non-agricultural work in rural India, rural employment, including issues of women’s work, food security, and agriculture and rural development policy.

The inaugural seminar for the FAS-Pandemic Studies Unit was held on September 29, 2020 between 1700 to 1900 hrs India Standard Time.

The Pandemic Studies Unit was inaugurated by Jakob Littmann, Resident Representative, Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia. This was followed by brief presentations by Madhura Swaminathan, R. Ramakumar, and Deepak Johnson. A Panel discussion on Agriculture Policy in the Time of a Pandemic, chaired by Vijoo Krishnan and Aparajita Bakshi and Sudha Narayanan as panelists was held after the presentations.