When: 18 February, 11.00 CET (10:00 Irish GMT)
Regsitration: Full event detail and link to register on EADI website here
This lecture traces the trajectory of growth of Indian agriculture over the last 5 decades. From the mid 1960s through the 1980s, rapid growth in production and productivity of food grain, rice and wheat, in particular, resulted in big gains in output and reduced dependence on imports to meet domestic consumption requirements. The trajectory has been more uneven in the 1990s and after. The lecture argues that there are huge problems that beset agrarian India, arising out of inequalities across crops, regions and classes.
Madhura Swaminathan is Professor and Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, and Chairperson of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai. She has a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford and has worked on issues of food security, agriculture and rural development for over 25 years.
Discussant: Elisabetta Basile, Sapienza University, Rome.
The event is the first in a new EADI series of ‘distinguished lectures’, featuring prominent speakers from the global south, and moderated by an academic from one of our member institutes.