The Messenger - Issue #10 - Minimum support price
This week's Messenger is the 10th one! Tell us what you think about it so far? What would would like us to cover? Do reply to this mail with your ideas.
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Roti, kapda, makaan used to be a winning electoral slogan back in the day. With the farmer's movement, it's coming back in vogue. This week we take a look at the Minimum Support Price regime, which is at the heart of India's Food System.
Afterword
Both of this week's ancillary essays are from Foreign Policy journals. First, a lovely essay by Justin E.H. Smith on ongoing efforts to turn aspects of nature - rivers, elephants etc - into a person for legal purposes. Then an essay on the geopolitics of energy, just so we keep in mind that renewable energy etc may not stop nations and corporations from competing and fighting.
The Global Legal Movement to Treat Nature as a Person — foreignpolicy.com How to make sense of the new global trend that grants legal rights to animals, plants, and rivers.
Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy — www.foreignaffairs.com It is true that clean energy will transform geopolitics—just not necessarily in the ways many of its champions expect.