The last decade and half has been marked by deceleration in India's agricultural growth, agrarian crisis and food and livelihood security issues.

This book provides an insightful analysis of the various dimensions of these problems. The authors and panelists, of national and international repute, have provided a rich analysis of all the major aspects—technology, markets, natural resources, climate change, institutions and policy framework. The book should be immensely useful to researchers, scholars, policy-makers and all those interested in Indian agriculture.

Nilabja Ghosh, currently in the faculty of Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India, has taught economics and served in reputed institutes as a researcher in agricultural economics and rural development. Her PhD in economics is from the Indian Statistical Institute.

She was a consultant with the United Nations University, participated in international and national collaborative research projects and regularly contributes inputs for government policymaking. Her research interests are econometric modelling, agricultural supply related issues, food markets, gender and environment, including climate change issues. She has written several articles for national and international journals and conferences and coauthored two books.

C.S.C. Sekhar is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. He holds a PhD degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a bachelor degree in law (LLB) from Delhi University. His main research interests relate to empirical work (econometric modelling) on market structure, price formation, international commodity markets and agricultural trade. His other areas of interest include political economy of development and development economics. He has widely published in journals of national and international repute.