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Date of Publication: January 12
Year of Publication: 2021
Publication City: New Delhi, India
Publisher: Society for Environmental Communications
Author(s): Sunita Narain
Journal: Down To Earth Magazine
It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food.
As Indians break into 2021 with the fervent hope that it will be different from last year’s devastating pandemic, we have angry faces staring us down. Farmers — many thousands — have gathered peacefully at the doorsteps of the nation’s capital, demanding that the government repeal the recently formulated agriculture-related laws. There is a lot of noise on who is right and who is wrong. But this protest should challenge us to think — not as researchers or academics or even policy wonks, but as consumers of food that farmers grow.
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