The case for profit: entrepreneurial approaches to addressing India's agrarian crisis

  • Herndon, Jay
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Publication date
July 2017
Publisher
London School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract

India's farmers are frequently in the news, whether it is due to the widespread issue of farmer suicides, low yields as a result of unreliable weather patterns, or protests in the face of price crashes. Against this backdrop, Jay Herndon writes that informal cooperatives run almost as businesses could provide a sustainable solution by allowing farmers to capture more of the final price paid by consumers

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