Marx on Greens

[Ulhas Joglekar]

Yoshi Furuhashi wrote:
>Why has India done better than many other developing nations in
>eliminating famines at the same time as having created the worst
>mal-nourishment problem in the world?  It's not the lack of food,
>obviously, as Sen also notes that it has "the largest unused food
>stocks on the globe."  It's a problem of class and gender relations,
>as Sen argues.  I think his remarks on the dangers of "a little bit
>of equity" (price support for farmers, without enough income support
>for the poor who suffer from high food prices, plus a food politics
>in which interests of big farmers are covered up by the rhetoric of
>support for small farmers) should be paid attention to.

Yes, this is the reality of Indian capitalism. A pediatrician friend of
mine confirms from his everyday experience, the role played by
undernourishment of girls from early childhood, in India's inability to
reduce high infant mortality.

Ulhas