This paper employs RRI’s mandate of ‘commitment to care’ to understand the ‘problem’ of rice straw burning in India and the possible ways of engaging with it. Straw burning is often framed as a linear technology or policy deficit ‘problem’ in need of an immediate and quick fix. Interventions and solutions emerging from such framings have so far remained ineffective. The ‘commitment to care’ approach enables us to situate the current practices of straw burning in a complex web of relationalities, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and affect. By doing so, the ‘problem’ of straw burning is rearticulated and redefined as a cumulative effect of multiple interventions, transformations, and contradictions that led to the shaping of modern agricultural systems in India. This re-articulation demands for a rethinking of engagement, remedies and responsibilities in ways that move beyond the individualization of blame and action.

本文采用了RRI的“关爱承诺”授权，以了解印度稻草燃烧的“问题”及其可能的解决方法。秸秆焚烧通常被认为是一种线性技术或政策赤字“问题”，需要立即迅速解决。迄今为止，从这样的框架中出现的干预和解决方案仍然无效。“关爱承诺”方法使我们能够将秸秆焚烧的当前实践置于关系，依赖性，脆弱性和影响的复杂网络中。这样一来，秸秆焚烧的“问题”就被重新表述并重新定义为多种干预，转化和矛盾的累积效应，导致印度现代农业系统的形成。这种重新表达要求重新考虑参与度，