CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
Book Discussion
An abstract of the book, as well as bios of our panelists, is given below.
Abstract
This article is in response to Gopi Rajagopal’s piece 'The Stories of Ehrlich, Borlaug and the Green Revolution' published by The Wire on October 13, 2016.
Lack of information and multiple intermediaries have been seen as major obstacles preventing farmers from obtaining a higher price for their produce. Thus, providing information on market prices to farmers and removing intermediaries from the supply chain, have often been considered means to empower farmers. This article argues that intermediaries are integral to any market exchange and notions of disintermediation mask processes that are replacing one form of intermediation by another, usually a corporatized or more vertically integrated one.
