SMALL FARMERS NEED OUR AID
In Vandana Shiva’s heartfelt account in Issue 292 of India’s small farmers losing their independence and their lives through interference from outside their country (‘Why Are Indian Farmers Dying, and Why Should It Matter to Us?’), is a hugely sobering thought about the industrialisation of agriculture in countries where there is no need to change from the time-honoured methods of an agrarian economy.
Worldwide, small farmers grow 70% of the world’s food on 25% of the world’s land. Evidence enough, surely, that small farms work better than industrialised ...
There are approximately 922 more words in this article.
To read the rest of this article, please buy this issue, or join the Resurgence Trust. As a member you will receive access to the complete archive of magazines from May 1966.
If you are already a member, please Sign in
