Acknowledgements: The research in this paper was generously supported by the Centennial
Group, Washington DC, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel,
Switzerland. The analytical work was also supported by Integrated Research and Development
(IRADE), New Delhi, India. The sections in this paper on the structural transformation of the
Indian economy are based on Binswanger and D’Souza 2011.
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is a joint center between Stanford’s
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Stanford Woods Institute for the
Environment.