Essays on Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition

Professor Radhakrishna’s works reflect the highest professional standards at home and abroad and are always set in the background of his commitment to human welfare, particularly of the dispossessed sections of society. These books will remain as reference manuals for teachers, researchers and policy analysts of the economy.

This volume is a treasure chest. Over the decades, with the clarity of an expert and critical user of statistical evidence, Prof. Radhakrishna has dedicated his economics to practical objectives of the first importance. He has mobilised and justified powerful arguments for egalitarian development. As a close observer of the economic roles of poor people, he knows them to be a vital resource and their food supply, their nutrition and their livelihoods to be top priorities for public action. He also sees social policy as economic policy. This fascinating volume also traces the changing contexts of his critical and constructive engagement with big policy questions of agriculture, food and nutrition: infrastructure, subsidies, buffers and the terms and conditions of the public control of food. This volume is enduringly relevant.