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How important is the skill of listening in research? Plenty. Anyone who attended this week’s International dissemination workshop on ‘Qualitative methods for Research in Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification’, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of IIT Kharagpur, could not have missed this obvious conclusion. The workshop was part of the ongoing research project - “Promoting Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh” or ‘SIAGI’ - sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Government of Australia. But the SIAGI team, drawn from Australia, India and Bangladesh (IIT Kharagpur is…