Interviews & Webinars
2026
- ‘The man trying to protect rice from extinction.’ BBC World Outlook (27 January)
2025
- Regenerative conversation with Dan Saladino. https://vimeo.com/1093763079?fl=pl&fe=cm
2024
- On Golden Rice – a critique of the Guardian’s editorial. The Source Project video
- An anthropogenic expansion of biodiversity, Ba’hai College lecture.
2023
- A rude awakening with David Sedlak and Debal Deb. KPFA radio. (Dec 29). Listen here. [Download mp3]
2022
- ‘The Green Revolution has limited our farmers’ climate resilience’. The Wire Science (2 October) [Video and transcript] Also Video here
- ‘Resilience in a Food Crisis’. AGC Press Forum (02 Aug)
2121
- Oxford Real Farming Conference: Why we need biodiversity.
- MyyTake Interview
- The importance of morphological characteristics for rice conservation. Part 1: Vanagam, Tamilnadu
- The importance of morphological characteristics for rice conservation. Part 2: Vanagam, Tamilnadu
2020
- Myyindia.com: Last remaining rare indigenous crops have hope. An article and a video [Download].
- AGrowingCulture: Hunger for Justice
- NRISamay.com: Maverik scientist, Seed hero
- Talk on the occasion of Kirloskar Vasudhara Sanman
- ASHA webinar on Uncultivated Foods
- AsBongsTravel – On Travellers
- Biodiversity & Food Security – on Democracy News
2019
- ‘Rescuing a tree from extinction’, Tedx Bellandur
- BBC World Service: [Audio] Feeding the Billions
2016
- Debal Deb on Local Bites, produced by Local Futures / International Society for Ecology & Culture. [Audio]
2014
- Debal Deb on GM rice (Aug 27, 2014), at MASIPAG, the Philippines.
2013
- Debal Deb on GMOs in three parts, by Tony Mitra:
a) On GMO part 1
b) On GMO part 2
c) On GMO part 3
d) on Tagore, Santiniketan and Bengal, by Tony Mitra. - Interview by Srihari Alturi (2013).
2011
- Free rice through seed banks, Interview by Michael Bauwens. P2P Foundation.
- Interview with Dr. Alice Boit, at Barcelona on Vrihi Rice Seed Bank.
2009
- KPFA Radio Inerview: Against the Grain Click to listen [Download mp3]
Talks
2025
- March 18-21: Delhi Heat Conference: On resilience of agroecosystems to rising air temperature.
- February 24-28: Readers’ Jhapa, Nepal: On Biodiversity and Culture
2023
- August 10: World Goethenium Association. World Conference Video here
2021
- February 5: ‘Safe Food’ (Kolkata Book Fair)
2020
- September 6: ASHA Webinar on Uncultivated Foods and Nutrition
- May 1: এই যন্ত্রনির্ভর সভ্যতাকে ত্যাগ না করলে পৃথিবী ও মানুষের বাঁচা অসম্ভব’, চার নম্বর প্ল্যাটফর্ম [Transcript of a talk]
- January 7: Vasundhara Sanman lecture at KVIFF, Pune.
2019
- August 25: TEDx Bellandur talk on Rescuing endangered trees from extinction. Also on YouTube.
- July 8: Talk on Water Conservation, Kolkata
2016
- April 2: Talk on Food Security and Farmers’ Sovereignty at Kisan Swaraj Manch, Hyderabad.
- Feb 15-17: Talk on Indigenous Cultures and Traditional Resource Use at Sombath Institute, Thailand.
2015
- October 5: Talk at Round Table Conference on the Agrarian Question New Delhi.
2013
- Talk on Developmentality at Bhubaneswar (Sep 21)Febria