India's White Revolution: Operation flood, food aid and development

This book is essentially a story of Operation Flood (OF), commonly referred to as ‘white revolution', covering all its three phases (1970-96). But it is set within an ambitious framework in terms of both time and space and in the wider context of the political economy of evolving trade, and the aid policies. Three lengthy chapters, taking up almost half of the text, discuss the growth of farm trade from the Age of Mercantilism through Adam Smith, the World War II, the Cold War era (which saw the poor countries struggling to develop against odds) up to the 1994 Agreement on Trade in Agriculture.

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