Political Economy of Food & Social Action in India 2013

[Raghunathan KC]

Dear All,

Please find attached an approach paper on Global Political Economy of Food & Options for Social Action in India 2013

Feel free to circulate, publish, translate, customize as required by local communities and conditions,

look forward to your valuable feedback, and hope as outlined in the paper, we shall soon, be cross-networked strongly irrespective of organizations, affiliation, profession, class, caste....as Food Matters after all, we live or die with Food..PE%20of%20Food%20Social%20Action%20India%202013.pdf

Raghunathan KC, Bangalore

[Raghunathan KC]

Dear Dr B C Barah, Gopi Ganta Ghosh and all others
many thanks for the comments. Mr Chandra Kishore starting a google hangout and network sounds like a great idea. Now that I have been researching on Food for several years, and having been part of the organic, sustainable food, livelihood movement, it would be a much needed forum to sharing views on the politics, economics and social action with regards to Food generally assumed to be a non-political trivial affair based on personal tastes!! look foward to hearing from you, I shall also touch base through email shortly.-Raghu

[Chandra Kishore]

Thanks Raghunath for a great summary. Perhaps we can plan a Google hangout to discuss it in front of our network members. Let me know if you would like to lead a virtual learning experience. I am specially interested in how the new generation of environment professionals can establish profitable enterprises in the organic sector and promote the industry. Email me at [e-mail] so that can work to promote this together.

Chandra Kishore

Founder

Indian Environment Network

[Dr. B C Barah]

An excellent composition and projection of real time Indian Food matrix. There are many other crucial dimensions of Indian Food, all of which created a synergy apparently silently marching toward "Agrarian DIstress" like situation. Promoters of Bumper Harvest, would find it hard to believe the distressing theory. But statistics remind that 400 to 450 million poor (measured by BPL) has remained unabted over the year (though % speak positively), inspite of great growth of per capita income, good road, APMC reform, retail chains, emergence of SEZ, 900 modern rice varieties, similar nuer for wheat, maize, vegetables, more milk, more chicken and cheaper airtravel, rise of Food giants etc..All these initiatives, schemes and achievements to be translated to inclusive economy. If that is achieved them the policitcal economy of food will be driving us forward.

COngratualtion to Rangunathan. HArd to comment on the heavy content of the article, but I am expreessing few unstructured points may be related issues. 

[GOPI KANTA GHOSH]

Thanks for useful paper