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Why Grow More Food?: An Analysis of Some Contradictions in the Green Revolution inKerala

In theory, there are a number of reasons why Third World countries are concerned about increas- ing food production, including: (1) feeding the hungry, the rural landless poor (as well as the small land- holders) and the urban poor; (2) enabling the owmers of land (be they small self-cultivating far...

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Main Author: Joan P. Mencher
Format: Printed Book
Published: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 13, No. 51/52 (Dec. 23-30, 1978) 1978
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003928.pdf
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520 |a In theory, there are a number of reasons why Third World countries are concerned about increas- ing food production, including: (1) feeding the hungry, the rural landless poor (as well as the small land- holders) and the urban poor; (2) enabling the owmers of land (be they small self-cultivating farmzers, or large producers for the market, or in between) to make a profitable living; and (3) other reasons relating to the state, to trade, and to the saving of foreign exchange. This paper, which explores data from two rice-Producing regions of Kerala, attempts to show how the first two goals of larger food production are essentially incompatible under the present social rela- tions of production 
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