Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India

Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India

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With growing recognition of the increasingly destructive impacts of mega motion lc100 the Green Revolution (GR) the world over, heightened further by COVID-19, there is an urgent need to scale up alternative approaches embedded within the paradigm of agro-ecology.Even so, actual progress on the ground in this direction has been extremely slow.I argue that this is because the entire policy framework governing agriculture continues to be located within the GR paradigm and acts as a multi-pronged impediment to upscaling agro-ecological farming.The paper proposes key policy reforms buy pooph that could help dismantle these barriers and facilitate, support, and accelerate movement towards agro-ecological farming in India.