Mere passing law is no guarantee to improved management of food - TopicsExpress



          

Mere passing law is no guarantee to improved management of food reserves without which the vulnerability of the poor will continue. There are no strict regulations to regulate the grain trade. Vague talks about hoarding is no answer to market mayhem as it is affecting almost all sections of the society. How to make agriculture a more reliable vocation is not on their agenda. The old slogan of land to the tillers no longer enthuses the left, not to speak of the right. The slogan is now land to the industrialists and transnationals and agriculture is becoming industrial agriculture. They talk of all kinds of ‘reforms’, all the time, only they don’t think in terms of ‘land reforms’ any more. In a way the broad-based Food Security Programme expresses the depth of today’s social crisis. The stakes are high. Like many of previous poverty alleviation schemes it is likely to fail and those who are calling it historic will not be there to defend history. Frontier Vol. 46, No. 10, Sep 15 - 21, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 03:21:43 +0000

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