Understanding Farmer Protests in India

Abstract

No national professional group in the world contains more people, or more poor people, than India’s agricultural sector, which is now shaken by massive farmers’ protests against three pieces of legislation recently passed by the Indian government. In her invited opinion piece, Sudha Narayanan helps us understand the grounds of the farmers' fears and shows the way toward a more democratic path of reform that would be sensitive to the concerns, needs and vulnerabilities of India’s smallholders and landless agricultural workers.