Crisis Quote by Vandana Shiva

“India’s villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry…

— Shashi Tharoor

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life…

— Jean Dreze

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding…

— Manmohan Singh

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic…

— Pope Benedict XVI

After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people,…

— Pope Paul VI

India's lifeline is the farmers and its agriculture system, and destroying them would mean an end for the country's food security and self-sufficiency.

— Amarinder Singh

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a…

— Marc Faber

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the…

— William Henry Chamberlin

There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the…

— Murray Rothbard

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

— Hans Rosling