ABSTRACT
Biotech Revolution; • the contradictions of India’s agricultural sector and the significance and limitations of
the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the largest “right to employment” program in the world;
• the compelling logic of a pro-poor, “ag-led” development strategy; • the nature of large-scale agricultural enterprises; • the developmental limitations of plantation economies and the promise and limits of
transnational agribusiness; • the elements of successful land reform and its role in undergirding development
strategies.
