Welcome to the premier Indian Food Policy website www.foodpolicy.in . The Indian Food Policy web site, is a platform for discussion of issues related to South East Asian food, agriculture and trade policy. This Once a Month newsletter provides access to Web Seminar based analysis and discussions, inviting analysts to argue South Asian food trade, the
politics of hunger, the urban rural divide, artificial and enforced pricing of agricultural
produce, industrial subsidization by farmers, the despair of economically unviable and
failing Asian farm households in a globalizing world, industrialization of farming and lack of government support to farm households, patenting and bio technology policy issues from non corporate or trade bloc perspectives. The website seeks to examine the inextricable link between biotechnology, intellectual property rights, food trade, agriculture and poverty.
The website welcomes contributions from policy analysts, bureaucrats, campaigners, politicians, academics, activists and farmers from any of the South East Asian countries. We believe that transparency in food policy issues is of vital importance to the economies of South Asian countries and the well being of the population. The sheer fact that every sixth human being on this earth is an Indian is a testimony to the vital importance of debate and transparency in food policy issues for the Indian sub continent. What Indians eat cannot and
must not be decided in closed secretive rooms or from other continents.