Over the past twenty-five years, GRAIN, an international NGO has worked with social movements and organizations around the world to defend local food systems and cultures from the advance of industrial agriculture. But another important part of its work has involved connecting this analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet and linking peoples' struggles situated within the food system to those happening in other areas. Climate change is one important example of this.
Ghanshyam Shah is an independent researcher and retired Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was earlier Director and Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat; Dr. Ambed
Krupa Shandilya is an Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. She is the author of the monograph Intimate Relations:
