How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article argues for a shift in Indian agricultural policy from farm debt waiver schemes toward institutionalised farm debt mediation. The author situates the proposal against the scale of the farm debt crisis in an agrarian nation where some seventy percent of the population depends on agriculture, citing National Crime Records Bureau figures on farmer suicides linked to unpaid loans and the compounding pressures of climate change, policy
shifts, rising input costs, monsoon failure and mental health. Debt waiver schemes are criticised as self defeating, since…
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