The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Reform in India: Fertilizers and Electricity for Irrigation

摘要: Agricultural policy reform is one of the major challenges facing India today. Such required in order to reduce poverty through faster agricultural growth and promote more sustainable use natural resources while ensuring food security. Subsidy policies that fertilizer electricity for groundwater irrigation are particular need reform. While subsidies these two inputs played a crucial role achieving India's Green Revolution, they have been criticized during past decade benefiting large-scale farmers than smallholders, placing fiscal burden on state, having negative environmental effects. By analyzing evolution input subsidy examining political processes involved efforts them, this study throws new light factors so far prevented move toward pro-poor environmentally India. The authors show electoral politics, institutional factors, paradigms or belief systems all play an important blocking They identify several options, as well strategies can overcome obstacles Community-based solutions, coalitions reform, fresh approaches debate, innovative consensus-oriented forms deliberation, effective research-based knowledge make positive contributions Indian analyses proposals presented will be valuable resource policymakers stakeholders concerned with politics development.