India is home to a quarter of the world's hungry people.2 Since the Green Revolution the country has produced enough to feed itself, but it has not yet been able to wipe out mass hunger. Currently, more than 40% of all Indian children below the age offive are underweight3—a decrease of only 10% over the past three decades. Though food prices have soared in recent years, small-scale farmers have not benefited from high retail prices as they usually receive far less for their produce and are often net food buyers. In fact, in the past 15 years, in an unprecedented wave, a quarter of a million farmers crippled by debt have chosen to commit suicide.4 Clearly, the country is in the midst of both a nutrition crisis and an agrarian crisis.
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