| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover; Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; The Promise of Sustainable Agriculture; India's Sustainable Farming Movement: A Brief Overview; A Gramscian Approach: Sustainable Agriculture in the Context of Hegemony; Case Studies and Methodological Framework; Synopsis; 2. India's Agrarian Crisis: A Gramscian View; Civil Society, Hegemony, and Crises of Authority; Hegemony in Rural India; Origins of the Green Revolution; The Green Revolution in India; The aftereffects and decline of the Green Revolution |
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Liberalisation and the Agrarian CrisisAgrarian crisis as 'crisis of authority'; Conclusion; 3. Embedded in Power: Potentials and Constraints of Sustainable Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture as a Response to Crisis and Challenge to Hegemony; Resources, Political Opportunities, and the Capacity to Mobilise; Mobilising in a Challenging Environment; Challenges of the rural setting; The uneven terrain of Indian civil society; The prominence of NGOs; Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives within Webs of Power Relations; Donor organisations; The state; Middle-class activist networks; Rural elites |
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The rural subalternConclusion; 4. The Kheti Virasat Mission: People's Movement or Agrarian Populism?; Punjab History: From Green Revolution to Crisis; KVM Origins: Forging an Identity as a 'People's Movement'; How does a Movement Differ? KVM's Structure and Mode of Engagement; The Chiranjivi Gram Abhiyan; 'Our Agricultural Heritage': Natural Farming and Agrarian Populism; A Movement No More? KVM in Transition; The challenge of natural farming in Punjab; Towards a 'professional' approach; Conclusion; 5. The Tamil Nadu Organic Farmers' Movement: The Limits of Participatory Approaches |
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Regional ContextRevathi: A Teacher's Journey to Ecological Farming; The 2004 South Asian Tsunami: Consolidating the Facilitative Strategy; Facilitating Community-Based Organisations and Regional Federations; The Demonstration Farm; Long-term Impact in the Cauvery Delta; Conclusion; 6. The Beej Bachao Andolan: How 'Grassroots' is the Grassroots?; Regional Context; History of Struggle in Garhwal; The Chipko Origins of BBA; From Tree Hugging to Seed Saving; The Philosophy of BBA; Impact: Local, National, and International; Sustaining a Tradition of Activism; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion |
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Glimpses of Food SovereigntyWithin the Fabric of Hegemony; Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Development; Locating the Counter-Hegemonic in Rural India; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sustainable agriculture -- India
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Sustainable agriculture -- Political aspects -- India
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Farmers -- Political activity -- India
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Land tenure -- India
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Farmers -- Political activity
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Land tenure
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Sustainable agriculture
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108561624 |
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1108561624 |
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9781108590112 |
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110859011X |
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