Global 1

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Global 1

• What is the phenomenon of Globalization?
• The impact of a foreign agency (implicitly vested
  interests) on socio-economic values.
• What it is not, definitely not.
• Ubiquitousness of the internet or the cell-phone
  are global phenomena but not globalization
• Why ? Loosing the right to self-determination is
  loss of identity, freedom(s)

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Global 1b

• Creating inequality
• Silent extermination?
• Exploit

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Global-2

• The gap of economic theories to ground reality.
• The erosion of social justice (modern face of
  feudalism, colonialism, imperialism)
• Corruption of Citizen-groups, normalization of
  the NGO.
• Mechanism to muting peoples voices

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Global-3

• Loss of control on
• Common resource assets soil, water, air
• Survivability of natural resource based
  livelihood and sustenance
• There is yet another level of common resource
• Mineral rights the law denies this ownership
  to the land-owner. Then why are they offered to
  a private company?
• Water table this is obviously individual
  (actually communal) a well, a pond, right to
  pump for crops.
• This has been subverted due to innovation of
  horizontal drilling. Started with Oil rights.
  Now, Coca Cola in Kerala demonstrated this
  subversion. severity of extraction for
  bottling in contrast to slower / smaller scale
  use of water, say for farming.
• Forests
• Rivers for access to clean water, beyond
  thirst, hygiene it is sport, it is viable mode
  of transportation . These would have a price tag
  with the advent of privatization.

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Global-4

• CHALLENGE TO THE INDIAN DIASPORA
• Internal empowerment as AID is doing a
  self-assertion exercise
• but it is not enough
• Our response to the external threat.
• beyond the indian beauracracy.
• the WTO (trade agreement) ,
• (WB,IMF) - modern avatar of Shylock the
  traditional moneylender with the intent of
  getting thr pound of flesh.

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Necessary conditions for Exploitation

• Incompetent, inept governance ?
• Yes/No explain why in 30seconds

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Necessary conditions for Exploitation

• NOT for the people. Greed, not merely
  selfishness. What are the indicators?
• No recognition or monitoring of impacts of
  policy.
• What else?

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Global - 5

• Food security?
• Prevention of starvation, Staving Disease.
• It is the first two foci of AID mission
• How do you do that?
• Prevent malnutrition

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showcase

• Poverty is displayed to the world for the .
• Subversive and wasteful
• Kalahandi , Orissa airstrip, rural drudgery,
  RWH ill-constructed (no local involement) and at
  wrong sites

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Global 8

• Mechanisms
• Not prevent Famine
• How? . . . Loss of entitlement
• Creation of Famine
• Artificial deficit
• Everybody loves a good Drought
• Failure of distribution
• Misguided knowledge
• Drip irrigation expense as opposed to TBS model

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Global 6

• Increase costs not but not increased revenue
• How?
• Charge for electricity
• Forced purchase of GM cropseed every harvest
  termin
• No change in minimum wage.
• No assurance of minimal price

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Global 7

• Costs increase but no proportional wage increase.
• Wholesaler pitting farmer to farmer.
• Some restrictions on co-operative operation.

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Global 9

• WTO guidelines
• Dismantle FCI, Ration Shop
• Import rice from China and wheat from US(?)
  why?
• What do we export ?
• At what cost? Prawns for rice.
• Loss of prime-land, reduction of yield,
  justification for GM. (not normalized for soil
  and weather)
• Crop best practices ignored rotation, managing
  water-INTENSIVE crops, multiple harvest.
• Subsidy on export! (loosing global dumping game
  strategy-punish farmer by increasing cost and
  reduce (indirect) subsidy.)
• Artificial /forced reduction on net yield.

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Global 9

• Agree to GM imports.
• Polluting, predatory species as I.P. (Canadian
  Soyabean)
• Kill indigeneous crop research and knowledge
• (some fight to stop I.P on turmeric deeper
  gains design of drug delivery strategy based on
  spice action )
• 5. No fight for principles level playing
  field, no quid pro quo demand.
• WHAT IS THAT?
• 6. What game-theoretic strategy adopted?
• 7. Engage / Seek reverse enforcement Brazil and
  Bt. Cotton

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3 The Pace of Peoples Movement

• The pulse of the common man, his health
• Physical Roti, Kapada or Makhan ok ROTI is
  enough for today.
• Emotional/spiritual realm (courtesy Amit/Arun..)
• Cultural expression art, literature prospers.
  CONFLICT crushes it. Pather Chujaeri, street
  theater, in JK.(Pankajs film)
• The psyche of a free man of self-esteem status
  of our national identity.
• Example say Tom Friedman to me It is
  irrelevant opinion of our destiny from a
  distant person with no identification of our
  culture. Let me bring it home the biographies
  of Ramanujam (not Chandrika!) have no clue of
  our conversation with God(quite unique there
  is no absolute, no 10 commandments). My work on
  challenging well discarding paradigms of a
  QFT or TOE are inspired by logical constructs
  of philosophical dialogue.
• Self-determination is the only way to write our
  destiny.

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• Co-ordinated by
• Chakri Iyyunni (Houston) interested in food
  security issues and impact of W.T.O on it.
• Shrayas Jatkar (New Mexico) Works at the Center
  for Economic Justice, University of new Mexico,
  Albuquerque. Focus on the World Bank.
• with special thanks to
• P. Chennaih (APVVU) - case studies outling the
  effects of WB policies and autonomy and insight
  into WB's methods.
• Thanks to
• Chandrika Ramanujam and Gayathri Manikutty for
  organizing the session.