Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is like Green Growth, Inclusive Growth, Green Economy and so many other catch-all and concepts which are too vague and broad to be useful: nice labels put on ‘business as usual’ policies avoiding the radical changes that are required....
The initial hype about the success of the first #Green Revolution in #India saw farmers everywhere in the country rushing to buy more chemical fertilisers. The government too kept subsidizing fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and all types of chemical concoctions...
If we are to believe the textbooks, the #Green Revolution in #India in the 1960s was the best thing that happened to the country. Page after page is dedicated to the praise of the introduction of chemical intensive farming and high yielding variety of crops. Punjab,...
