Indian bureaucracy: Neither responsible nor wise
The lockdown impacts different farming spaces differently and unless the bureaucracy consults the affected stakeholders the farm sector crisis will only deepen.
India flounders as bureaucracy bloats
As the Indian economy flounders the bigotry of those who make policy for the affluent only eats into the core of Indian society.
On COVID relief packages
Allow #mgnrega for all farm work in fields of marginal & small farmers for 1 yr
Harvesting Uncertainties – Small stimulus; fevered farms
The pandemic has deepened the farm crisis and the stimulus pales into insignificance when compared to inexorable disenfranchisement of the farmer.
Diffusing a crisis: time for collaborative conversation
The barrage of negative farm sector news highlights policy mess extenuating the imponderables around livelihoods in this space where even suicides are not correctly counted.
Enhancing the agenda for farm sector advocacy
Farmer unions must understand the wider implications of all policies and widen the horizon of their arguments vis-a-vis farmer rights and policy wrongs.
Time for a new paradigm for farm sector advocacy
Farmer unions have confined themselves to issues that resonate with farmers but missing the big picture around genuine transformation of rural livelihood across India.
Thwarting climate change impact through policy innovation
The policy-making regime seems to be keen to make the grim prognostications around the impact of climate change come true.