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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If you want to know the consequences of the three farm bills, look no further than Mexico, where similar policies have driven millions of farmers and small retailers into bankruptcy, and the country has lost its food sovereignty.
The recent farm bills will impose the neoliberal shock therapy of dispossession and dependency, finally clearing the way to restructure the agri-food sector. The massive inequalities and injustices that have resulted from the COVID-related lockdowns are a mere taste of what is to come.
To appreciate what is happening to agriculture and farmers in India, we must first understand how globalisation has subverted the development paradigm.
A response to 2 articles that appeared on the Bloomberg Quint website extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops.
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