An excellent article by Devinder Sharma, an expert on food and trade policy, based in New Delhi. India is living through his prophesies made in his book, “In the Famine Trap” in 1997. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) too is being unwillingly forced to accept his arguments. His forthcoming book, “Keeping the Other Half Hungry,” is an incisive analysis of how globalisation is accelerating the process of marginalisation of farmers in the Third World.
“You have been witness to a stupendous rise in food prices. Some say that the price rise has broken a 10-year record. You have also heard the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Food Minister and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission repeatedly telling the nation that prices will come down in 2 to 3 months time. You have probably even lost count of how many times they said so.”
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An excellent article by Devinder Sharma, an expert on food and trade policy, based in New Delhi. India is living through his prophesies made in his book, “In the Famine Trap” in 1997. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) too is being unwillingly forced to accept his arguments. His forthcoming book, “Keeping the Other Half Hungry,” is an incisive analysis of how globalisation is accelerating the process of marginalisation of farmers in the Third World.
“You have been witness to a stupendous rise in food prices. Some say that the price rise has broken a 10-year record. You have also heard the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Food Minister and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission repeatedly telling the nation that prices will come down in 2 to 3 months time. You have probably even lost count of how many times they said so.”
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