Bruce A. Scholten

India's White Revolution (eBook, PDF)

Operation Flood, Food Aid and Development

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security. 'Operation Flood', which revitalised the Indian dairy industry between 1970 and 1996, was the world's largest development programme, however critics accused it of luring India to neocolonial dependence on European surpluses. Eventually the perils of reliance on food aid were managed by proper pricing policies that both benefited rural farming families and wiped out urban 'milk famines'. In 2008 the World Bank hailed the programme's success and now promotes similar schemes in Africa. A detailed understanding of India's White Revolution is therefore imperative in the context of its future use in the developing world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857713551
• Artikelnr.: 39140916

Autorenporträt

Bruce Scholten was Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK, 2009-18, and edited the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) rural RGRG Newsletter, 2009-21. He is also author of US Organic Dairy Politics (2014).