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The Other India: Realities of an emerging power
Vandana Shiva
It is the poor farmers and small farmers who are destroyed by the globalisation of a negative economy, rues Vandana Shiva in one of the essays included in The Other India: Realities of an emerging power (www.sagepublications.com). Negative economics push people out of production, she observes. “They create economic displacement and disposable people, people whose very right to survival is denied.” ; Another essay in the book is titled ‘ Shaping India’s Agricultural Destiny,’ by M. S. Swaminathan. He recommends that just as IT industries have specialised in handling outsourcing assignments efficiently, we must enable our farm graduates and farmers to take up outsourcing jobs in areas where we have a comparative advantage. Some examples are hybrid seed production, tissue culture, organic farm products, and biological software for sustainable agriculture. M. G. K. Menon’s essay identifies wasteful lifestyles and population growth as the driving forces for environmental degradation. Important insights.
D. Murali
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