This work provides an understanding of agricultural subsidies in the context of the World Trade Organisation and the process of liberalisation in India. It examines the issue from various angles in order to move the reform process forward.

Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries. Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations. In some places, food riots turned violent, pressuring governments and in a few cases contributed to their...