Linkage of Food Security: Social Network Analysis and Stakeholder Analysis in Agricultural Innovation Systems in North Eastern India

For better efforts in development of the farming community, agricultural extension services have always focused on farmers’ resources, activities and capabilities. And this has proved to be an important standing point in the rice growing state Tripura of North East India for attaining self-sufficiency in food grain and developing the economic condition of the farmers. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been a boon to the rice farmers and also has posed as an example especially in similar other conditions around the world. This paper seeks to understand how the stakeholders involved in the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in SRI influence the spread of the technology not only among the farmers but at an organizational level in the Tripura state of India. A descriptive research design was followed to study the position of stakeholders in the SRI Innovation Systems. Modified power/interest matrix of Mandelow was used to study stakeholder positions in the innovation system and social network analysis using UCINET 6 software to understand the flow of information and strength of linkage among the actors