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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Climate crisis lies at the heart of farmer protests in India -Omair Ahmad

Climate crisis lies at the heart of farmer protests in India -Omair Ahmad

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published Published on Jan 25, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 27, 2021

-IndiaClimateDialogue.net

Protests by Indian farmers against three new farm laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water

The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to the biggest peaceful civil society protest in the world. Despite 11 rounds of talks and the creation of a committee by the Supreme Court, there seems little hope of a resolution when the problem is framed as a zero-sum game of either implementing the laws or repealing them.

Hidden by the political crisis are the problems central to the agricultural crisis in India: low farm productivity, high indebtedness, inappropriate cropping patterns and perverse incentives. The laws are focussed solely on contract farming (where farmers enter contracts with buyers directly, rather than going through licensed traders), deregulating the agricultural market to weaken the control of state governments, and the storage of grain. They are focussed on output management, when the problems are of rising input costs and income security. Their repeal will also not deal with these issues, as the continuation of the status quo is untenable.

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IndiaClimateDialogue.net, 25 January, 2021, https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2021/01/25/climate-crisis-lies-at-the-heart-of-farmer-protests-in-india/


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