Centre For Sustainable Development (CSD) works on medicinal plants, Technology Policy, Biodiversity Conservation, Agricultural Biotechnology, organic farming, Trade and Environment, IPRs, Farmers Rights, Environmental Policies, Environmentally Friendly Technologies (ESTs), agricultural diversification, Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Uttaranchal (India) and other developing countries.

Some of the reports, papers and books published by Dr. Ghayur Alam are listed below. Pl. contact on alamcts@vsnl.com for copies of these publications.

1. "A Database on Selected Medicinal Plants in the Indian Himalayan States, Prepared for Consumer Unity Trust (CUTS), Calcutta, 2004.

2. "Farmers' Rights And Access to Seed in the Central and North-East Himalayan Region",. Prepared for Consumer Unity Trust (CUTS) Calcutta as part a project on Farmers' Rights at SAWTEE, Nepal, 2003.

3. "Barriers and Opportunities for Promoting Trade in Environmentally Friendly Products-A Study of India's Leather Industry" Prepared for Consumer Unity Trust (CUTS), Jaipur and United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), May 2000.

4. "Agricultural Research and Indian Farmers: Past Performance and Emerging Issues", Prepared For Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, May 2002.

5. "Acquisition of Agricultural Biotechnology by India: a Study of Rice, Cotton and Spices", Prepared for Prepared for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) And United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Geneva, April 2001.

6. "Acquisition of Environmentally Suitable Technologies by China- the Case of Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Boilers" Prepared for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, March 2001
"A Study of the use of Biopesticides and Biofertilizers in Haryana", International Institute for Environment and Development, UK, Gatekeeper Series No.93, 2000. www.iied.org/docs/gatekeep/GK93.pdf

7. "A Study of the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies to India", Prepared for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) And United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Geneva, October 1999.

8. "TRIPs, Biotechnology and Global Competition", Prepared for CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment, Jaipur,1997.

9. "Impact of the Proposed Changes in IPR on India's Pharmaceutical Industry", Prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, (ICRIER) New Delhi, December 1996.

10. "Genetically Modified Organisms-Biosafety Implication s For India" paper presented at the Satellite Symposium on Biotechnology and Biodiversity: Scientific and Ethical Issues, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, November 15-16, 1996.

11. "Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developing Countries", Economic and Political Weekly, March 23, 1996.

12. "Impact of New Technology on Scale and Scope in the Engineering Industry-The Case of India" prepared for INTECH, UNU, Maastricht (The Netherlands), 1995.

13. "Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from India", Development Centre, OECD, Paris, 1994. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/45/1920185.pdf

14. "The Role of Biotechnologies in the Improvement of Agricultural Productivity in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas", prepared for the Biotech Consortium India Ltd., New Delhi, April 1994.

15. "Research and Development by Indian Industry" A Study of the Determinants of its Size and Scope", prepared for the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, August 1993.

16. "Managing Economic Liberalization: Evidence from the Indian Engineering Industry", Mimeo, May 1993. (With Staffan Jacobsson).

17. "Industrial Districts and Technological Change: Study of the Garment Industry in Delhi", prepared for the UNCTAD, Geneva, November 1992.

18. "Technology and Productivity: a Study of Switching Technology", prepared for the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP), New Delhi, June 1992.

19. "Impact of Non Economic Factors on Choice of Technology and Organization of Production: a Study of Small Industrial Firms in India", prepared for ILO, Geneva, December 1991.

20. "Technology and Productivity: a Study of India's Telecommunications Cables Industry", prepared for the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP), New Delhi, October 1990.

21. "The Indian Electronics Industry: Current Status, Perspectives and Options", OECD Development Centre, Technical paper No. 30, October 1990. www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/24/1919631.pdf

22. "The Role of Technology Imports in the Indian NC Machine Tool Industry", prepared for the Employment and Technology Branch, ILO, Geneva, 1989.

23. "Computerization in Indian Banks", prepared for the Research Policy Institute, Lund, Sweden, January 1988.

24. "India's Technology Policy: Its Influence on Technology Imports and Technology Development", Economic and Political Weekly, November 1985.

25. "India's Technology Policy: Its Performance and Implications", National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, June 1985.

26. "Payment for Technology by Indian Firms: Their Nature and Effects on Technology Acquisition and Technology Development" National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER),, New Delhi, 1985.

27. "Technology Imports and Technology Development: Their Interrelationship in Indian Industry", National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, 1985.

28. "The Consultancy Engineering Services in India: Their Origin, Growth and Future", prepared for the Development Centre, OECD, Paris, September 1984.

29. "Government Research and Its Utilization by Industry: The Case of Industrial Civil Research in India", Research Policy, January 1984. (with John Langrish).

30. "Patents and R&D Activities in India", National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, April 1983.

31. "Growth of Man-made Fibre Industry in India with Special Reference to Changes in the International Technology Market", National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, May 1982.

32. "Performance of Imported Technology in LDCs-the Case of Telephone Industry in India", National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, 1981.

33. "Non-Multinational Firms and Transfer of Technology to Less Developed Countries", World Development, April 1981. (with John Langrish).

Books

1. Liberalization and Industrial Development in The Third World: A Comparison of the Indian and South Korean Engineering Industries, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1994. (With Staffan Jacobsson)

2. Contributed chapters and papers to a number of books including:

Desai Ashok (ed.) Technology Absorption in Indian Industry, Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, 1988.
Watanabe S. (ed.) Impact of Microelectronics on Third World Economies, Macmillan, U.K., 1993.
Alcorta Ludovico (ed.) Flexible Automation in Developing Countries: The Impact of Scale and Scope and the Implications for Location of Production, UNU/ INTECH Series in New Technology and Development, Routledge, 1998
Veena Jha (ed.) Trade and Environment: Issues and Options for India, UNCTAD, 2003