Bina Agarwal

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Bina Agarwal
Agarwal in 2012
Nationality	Indian
Academic career
Field	Development economics[1]
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A.) University of Delhi (Ph.D.)
Awards	Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize 1996, Edgar Graham Book Prize 1996, The K. H. Batheja Award 1995–96, Leontief Prize 2010
Notes
Thesis Mechanization in Indian agriculture: an analytical study based on the Punjab. (1977)

Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; legal change; and agriculture and technological transformation.

She is the author of an award-winning book, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, which has had an impact on governments, NGOs, and international agencies in promoting women's rights in land and property.^[2] This work has also inspired research in Latin America and globally.^[3]