CONTENTS Foreword: Jeffrey D. Sachs 11 Introduction: M.S. Swaminathan 17 Parti Sustainable Development in Indian Agriculture 1. Towards Sustainable Agricultural Development 27 2. Shaping India's Agricultural Destiny 41 3. Sustainable Development: The Challenges Ahead 55 4. Sustainability: Beyond the Economic Factor 69 5. Corporatisation of Agriculture 83 6. Bio-happiness in Rural Areas 89 7. Parched Earth and Public Action 95 Part II Technology and Evergreen Revolution 8. Evergreen Revolution : Need, Problems and Prospects 101 9. Rationale of Integrated Farming Systems 105 10. Ecological Farming: Need to Change Course 115 11. Overcoming Land, Water Shortage 119 12. Frozen Seeds and Food Security: Significance of the Svalbard Seed Vault 129 13. New Vistas in Biotechnology 135 14. Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre 145 Part III Sustainable Food Security 15. Beyond the Green Revolution: Food for All and For Ever 151 16. Food Security for a Growing India 169 17. Fighting Hunger: Know-How to Do-How185 18. Hunger-free Area Programme 193 19. A Millennium Without Hunger 203 20. Towards a Nutrition Secure India211 21. Towards a Hunger-free India 219 22. Using the Food Mountain 233 Part IV Agrarian Crisis 23 Farmers' Distress: Causes and Cures 239 24. Agrarian Crisis: Policies Should Shift from Suicide Relief to Suicide Prevention243 25. Agrarian Crisis: Insights of the Farmers247 26. Drought, Flood, Seeds and Suicides 253 27. Dealing with the Agrarian Crisis259 Part V WTO and Indian Farmers 28. World Trade, Employment and Poverty 267 29. Cancun: Blessing and Curse 273 30 Protecting Our Plant Varieties 283 31. Farm Research and IPRs 295 32. Jai Kisan 299 33. Safeguarding Biological Diversity 305 34. Farm Families: Unsung Guardians of Food Security 313 Part VI Shaping India's Agricultural Destiny 35. Shaping Our Agricultural Future 319 36. For an Evergreen Revolution 323 37. Pathway to Rural Prosperity 333 38. Major Challenges in Agriculture and Food Security 339 39. Three-Pronged Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture 347 40. Towards Biosecurity in Agriculture359 41. Jal Swaraj: A Win-Win Situation for All 365 42. Ecological Security: Pathway to Sustainable Human Security 71 43. Monsoon Management in an Era of Climate Change 379 44. Media and the Farm Sector385 45. Copenhagen, Tsunami and Hunger . 391 Index 397