Understanding the emergence of a hybrid knowledge production discourse: The case of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) drought tolerant rice research in India

Initial ideas of this manuscript were presented at the 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Mt.Fuji, Japan. 3–7 June, 2013 by the first author.

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Fig. 1 Location of the 13 GCP partner institutions in India.

Table 1 GCP rice project on drought in India.

Axapta No; Project	Lead Institute; Principal Investigator; Country	Trait	Partners	Start–End (NCE)
G4005.69.01; Developing and disseminating resilient and productive rice varieties for drought-prone environments in India	IRRI; Arvind Kumar; India	Drought tolerance	IGKV, CRRI, CRURRS, NDUAT, UAS, TNAU, BAU, BF	Mar 2005–Feb 2008 (Feb 2009)
G3007.05; Detecting and fine-mapping QTLs with major effects on rice yield under drought stress for deployment (marker-aided breeding)	IRRI; Arvind Kumar; Global	Drought tolerance	BAU, BF, CRRI, CRURRS, IGKV, JNKVV, NDUAT, TNAU, UAS–Bangalore, UoAl, YAAS	Aug 2007–July 2009 (Dec 2011)
G4008.05; Connecting performance under drought with genotypes through phenotype associations	IRRI; Arvind Kumar; Global		IRRI, CIRAD, ARC/WARDA, BIOTECH, CRRI, TNAU, BAU	Jan 2008 –Dec 2010 (June 2012)
G4011.04; Dissemination and community of practice for newly developed drought-tolerant QTLs pyramided breeding lines	IRRI; Arvind Kumar	Drought tolerance	CRRI, CRURRS, DRR, NDUAT	July 2011–June 2014

ARC/WARDA: Africa Rice Center/West Africa Rice Development Association.

BAU: Birsa Agricultural University.

BF: Barwale Foundation.

BIOTECH: National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

CIRAD: Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement.

CRRI: Central Rice Research Institute.

CRURRS: Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station.

CSU: Charles Stuart University.

DRR: Directorate of Rice Research.

IGKV: Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya.

IRRI: International Rice Research Institute.

JNKVV: Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya.

NagU: Nagoya University.

NDUAT: Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology.

SUA: Sokoine University of Agriculture.

TNAU: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

UAS–Bangalore: University of Agricultural Sciences.

UoAb: University of Aberdeen.

UoAl: University of Alberta.

UoMi: University of Missouri.

YAAS: Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences.s