Agriculture in India is facing multiple crises. Aside from the economic and social deficits, the transition to industrial Green Revolution agriculture has marked the rural worlds with a plethora of ecological problems. The high-input Green Revolution model of agriculture has led to a burgeoning fertilizer subsidy bill and led to the dilemma of increasing productivity while nutrition and food security have been sacrificed. These effects have been borne disproportionately by underprivileged socioeconomic groups across rural and urban India. Given these trends, there have been calls for an alternate paradigm for informed action, broadly based on agroecology and an ecosystem view of production processes that go beyond the existing narratives of ‘productivity and populism’. Transitioning towards an agroecological paradigm requires research that goes beyond conventional academic disciplinary boundaries. The proposed conference on “Managing Sustainable Transitions in Agriculture: Newer Directions for Research and Civic Action” aims to bring together these diverse researchers and practitioners on a common platform. Our objective is to deepen conversations across disciplines and actors on various processes and practices to enable better articulation of a new paradigm for agrarian change in India that is both socially just and ecologically viable.