Chronicles of Tragedies and Harbingers of Hope: Resistance to Neo-Liberalism-- People’s Movements and Alternatives

Neo-liberal economic policies have threatened land security, security of employment opportunities and food security. In the background representatives of the peasantry have to transform themselves into harbingers of hope. There is need for intervention of the Peasant Movement at the production level to ensure food security, security of employment opportunities and also to reverse land insecurity. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), also known in popular parlance, as the ‘Madagascar System’ can be an effective method of overcoming the technology gap to exponentially increase production, in the traditional rice growing regions and probably also in some of the semi-arid regions presently reeling under starvation. The dissemination of such technologies has to be taken up as a mass movement by the Peasant organisations and political parties representing the interests of the oppressed peasantry as a strategy that would strengthen the struggle against Neo-Liberalism.