ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with developing alternative pathways for sustainable agriculture transformation while using the example of India. In India, the issue of sustainability is still not adequately recognized in the political agenda under development for the sector of agriculture in India. Many scholars consider the current developments in agriculture to be an outcome of the crisis of the path of agricultural development – a crisis of path of capitalist agricultural development arising out of the perusal of neo-liberal development strategy. Mostly the progressive interventions have been limited to debating the dynamics of agrarian transition mainly in terms of the conditions and factors responsible for the completion/incompletion of all those changes in the countryside that are necessary to the overall development of capitalism and to the ultimate dominance of capitalist mode of production. This chapter argues that the influence of the practice of capitalist mode of industrial agriculture which seeks cheap labour and cheap nature is rapidly accelerating the vulnerability of agricultural systems across the world. The threat to sustainability of agricultural production and productivity is an important question from both the socio-economic and ecological points of view for the millions of people in India.
