[WSMDiscuss] 'India Compromises Its WTO Strategy : A critical look at the 2020 agricultural market reforms' (Biswajit Dhar)

[Jai Sen]

Monday, February 1, 2021

India in movement…, Farmers in movement, Peasants in movement…, Resistance in movement…, Rights in movement…, Politics in movement… Democracy in movement…, History in movement…, Herstory in movement…, Studies in movement…

[Here, further to my post just now reflecting on the present stage of the Farmers’ movement in India (‘The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle’, by Sushovan Dhar) is an analysis of the agricultural reforms that have triggered the protests and the movement.  Which is available for free download.

[I’m not quite sure why the title of the report emphasises the possibility that India is ‘compromising its WTO strategy’ – as opposed to a critical analysis of the reforms, which seems important enough in itself - but then I haven’t read the report as yet; the explanation must be inside !  

[Thanks Biswajit, for writing this, and Focus on the Global South for commissioning and publishing this report – and for making it available for free download :

India Compromises Its WTO Strategy : A critical look at the 2020 agricultural market reforms

Biswajit Dhar

            In solidarity,

            JS

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A critical look at the 2020 agricultural market reforms
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Dear friends and allies,

Since the food crisis in the 1960s, India’s agricultural policy was designed to promote food security and protect rural livelihoods. From the mid-1990s, successive governments resisted neoliberal, export-oriented policies pushed by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Indian negotiators attempted to protect agriculture, even when other sectors were liberalised, keeping high import tariffs in place to protect farming communities.

Two new agricultural laws introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2020 will change India’s agricultural policy completely by seeking to make India an agricultural export hub, linking farmers’ livelihoods to global trade as they have never been linked before. 

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How will India’s peasants and agricultural workers, who make up more than half of the workforce, withstand major disruptions caused by import competition and the attendant uncertainties of the global market?

Biswajit Dhar, professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, offers his detailed analysis in this new report.

In solidarity,

Focus on the Global South
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