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Welcome to the premier
Indian Food Policy website. The Indian Food Policy web site, is a platform for
discussion of issues related to South East Asian food, agriculture and trade policy.
Every sixth human being on the planet resides in India. We believe democratic food policy is
meaningless rhetoric without listening to the views of the Indian farmer.
Global institutions,
multi lateral institutions, specialist First World food policy research institutes that try to coerce
and drum up global concurrence, without ascertaining the views of Indian farmers, vis a vis global
food policies, can never be remotely democratic. Maybe their very mandate is explicitly undemocratic.
This Once a Month newsletter, provides access to Web Seminar based analysis and discussions, inviting
analysts to argue South Asian food trade, food safety, food security, the politics of hunger, patenting
and bio technology policy issues from non corporate or trade bloc perspectives. The website seeks to
examine the inextricable link between biotechnology, intellectual property rights, food trade, aid and
poverty. The website welcomes contributions from policy analysts, bureaucrats, campaigners, politicians,
academics, activists and farmers from any of the South East Asian countries.
We believe that transparency in food security and food policy issues, is of vital importance to the
economies of south Asian countries and the well being of the
population. What Indians eat, cannot and must not be decided in closed secretive rooms,
or from other continents, no matter what legal frameworks may be discussed between a small Indian
elite and global institutions or trade blocs.
Indian farming, agriculture, food policy
Indian Food Policy
"For millions of India's farmers, it is a question of subsistence, not a subsidy.
And subsistence can never be put on the table for negotiation. Subsidies should be
discussed and negotiated and even phased out, but not when it involves the basic
survival of the farming communities." - Shri Kamal Nath, Indian Commerce Minister
