Introduction: The Political Economy of Land and Livelihoods in Contemporary India

Mishra, Deepak Kumar; Nayak, Pradeep

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“…Among the various policy measures that have contributed to the crisis are the declining public investment in agriculture, particularly in irrigation, the reduction of input subsidies (on electricity, water, fertilizers and seeds) and the decline in credit flow to agriculture, which have increased the private costs of agricultural production (see, Mishra and Nayak, 2020). 4 India’s agrarian structure is dominated by small and marginal farmers.…”

Section: Agrarian Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, there are striking differences between long-term and short-term migrants. Generally, long-term migrants are more likely to be from the upper caste, rich and middle peasants, and those already in non-farm occupations and living in relatively developed regions (Mishra and Nayak, 2020). In contrast, short-term migrants are mostly from the landless, land-poor categories, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households and living in less-developed regions (Keshri and Bhagat, 2012).…”

Section: Labour Out-migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India

Mishra

2020

Human Geography

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The nature and manifestations of the rural and agrarian distress in India point to the disastrous, class-specific nature of neoliberal economic policies. A significant aspect of this process is its spatial dimensions – the various ways through which uneven development has been the cornerstone of the unfolding dynamics of economic growth in globalizing India. The prolonged agrarian crisis, fuelled by neoliberal economic policies, has created a crisis of survival in the rural areas. It has uprooted a class of cultivators and agricultural labourers, who have joined the informal economy as insecure, vulnerable workers.

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Section: Agrarian Crisismentioning

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Section: Labour Out-migrationmentioning

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Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India

Mishra

2020

Human Geography

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“…Harvey (2003Harvey ( , 2005Harvey ( , 2007 endorses all the elements of dispossession put forward in Marx's PA, say for example, the commodification of land and labor power, forceful eviction and proletarianization of peasants, and the suppression of indigenous mode of production. For Harvey, there is a need to repackage PA to become AbD to catch allongoing processes of capital accumulation; otherwise, he and other scholars underline the relevance of PA in modern times (Adnan, 2013;Carbonella and Kasmir, 2014;Chatterjee, 2017;Hall, 2013;Harvey, 2003;Kasmir and Carbonella, 2015;Li, 2009;Mishra and Nayak, 2020;Perelman, 2000). AbD is a process by which a surplus capital or overaccumulation in one place flows into the demanding territorial region in order to create more profit.…”

Section: Theorizing Dispossessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interrogating Dispossession for Development in Ethiopia

Tesema

2021

Forum for Development Studies

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In this article, I explore some of the implications of state land policy as an approach to analyzing the double dispossessionland and labor dispossessions. Despite a growing interest in the study of land dispossession in the global South, especially after the post-2008 financial crisis, examining the complexities between the land policy, land and labor dispossessions have relatively been overlooked. I discuss how the state's land policy contributes to coercive land dispossession and how this aspect of dispossession becomes the precondition for the second dispossessionlabor. The people who lost their land to investments concurrently lost their employment, and a new class of landless and jobless farmers is emerging.

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“…Private investment in agriculture is gradually increasing while direct public investment is declining. The state also has gradually withdrawn from social as well as welfare measures in the agricultural sector including land redistribution to the landless and poor, supply of subsidized inputs, and agricultural extension measures (Ganguly-Scrase and Scrase, 2009; Mishra and Nayak, 2020).…”

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Small and Marginal Farmers’ Participation in Potato Contract Farming in West Bengal, India

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Sinha

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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There are ongoing discourses on contract farming across the world. Contract farming is an issue of serious concern in India today, among farmers as well as policymakers. Such farming among small and marginal farmers, who are facing several problems in agriculture, requires special attention. Considering the large presence of small and marginal farmers and PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay model of potato contract farming in the state of West Bengal, which is India’s second largest producer of potatoes, a study is imperative from the perspective of small and marginal farmers and their participation in potato contract farming. The present paper discusses the nature and extent of participation of small and marginal farmers in potato contract farming in the state. Although participation is qualitative and interpretative in nature, the study considers the attributes which are mainly quantitative or measurable. In order to understand the nature and extent of the participation of small and marginal farmers in contract farming, the study also focuses on the participation of other stakeholders such as vendors and non-marginal and small farmers, and a comparison of socioeconomic conditions between the contract and non-contract farmers is undertaken.

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Introduction: The Political Economy of Land and Livelihoods in Contemporary India

Cited by 5 publications

References 63 publications

Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India

Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India

Interrogating Dispossession for Development in Ethiopia

Small and Marginal Farmers’ Participation in Potato Contract Farming in West Bengal, India

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