22 Oct, 2020
Politicking over farm bills
An opportunity has been lost in the politicisation of a critical issue as the farm bills get enmeshed in a cesspool of vested interests while the farmer interests stay ignored
9 Sep, 2020
Farmers funding schemes to serve them
Every poverty alleviation programme seems to have a recurring theme — being funded by the poor themselves; the numbers give the game away
22 Jul, 2020
From food security to nutritional self-reliance
India is failing on the nutritional self-sufficiency score and policy-makers should correct strategy stance, empowering the farmer to produce for nutritional adequacy.
18 Jun, 2020
Farm Sector – Hasty ordinances; hurtful impact
The farm ordinances fail to resolve the dilemma of depressed farmer livelihoods even while amputating the ameliorative measures earlier built into the system.
6 May, 2020
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.
24 Apr, 2020
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.
28 Mar, 2020
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.
24 Jan, 2020
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.
13 Dec, 2019
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.
1 Dec, 2019
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.
