Climate change in the Indian farmers' protest
The ongoing farmers’ movement in India has taken the world’s largest democracy by storm. Hundreds of thousands from all over the country have laid siege to New Delhi for more than two months. As both the protestors and the government dig their heels in, the chances of confrontation and violence are increasing by the day. Local and international reporting traces the origin of the movement to three laws passed by Narendra Modi’s government in September 2020. These laws aim to radically change the country’s agricultural system ‘from a supply-push production system to a demand...
Source: mondediplo.com