An article on the BBC website today says plans are under way to cancel the debt of all small farmers in India! This applies to farmers with 2 hectares or less of land (about 5 acres).
This is really good news.
It’s too bad it doesn’t apply to farmers with a bit more land, but this is a very good start. It would be nice for example if farmers with more land received a prorated level of compensation.
Hills and Plains Seedsavers recently mentioned how some of the poorest women in India have taken the initiative to reform agriculture in their country.
This is good news as I imagine that there would be many, many thousands of farmers with tiny parcels of land. How coincidental, considering what I recently wrote about! And that was something I read in “The New Internationalist” several months or more ago.