Articles by J Bandyopadhyay

they will discover that virtually all of their rescued indigenous wheat varieties can only be obtained from the United States. In fact, according to the US National Academy of Science, collection programmes are currently oriented to the needs of the developed countries." In fact instances have been reported, from Kenya and Libya for instance, of plant varieties being taken out to the developed countries, and later, when the indigenous varieties had become extinct in their home countries, these countries having to pay for obtaining their seeds in a commercial purchase.

Eucalyptus in Rainfed Farm Forestry Prescription for Desertification J Bandyopadhyay Vandana Shiva IN the countries of the South desertification is becoming an increasingly severe threat to human survival. The recently published UNEP report on desertification gives the estimate that about 3.5 million hectares of productive and fertile rainfed land is being lost to this ever-expanding threat. The contemporary food crisis in Africa is the most vivid experience of what desertification entails in human and economic terms. It is also a reminder of the fact that the economic problems of the poorest of mankind are rooted in the ecological destruction caused by the excessive resource demands of the elites of the world who manipulate the pattern of natural resource utilisation in the advancement of their economic privileges.

earlier draft of the paper. Above all she wishes to acknowledge the unstinted help given by several of her colleagues and friends at different stages in the preparation of this paper She alone, however, is responsible for the errors that remain.] 1 K N Raj, "Prospective Changes", Seminar, December 1979; S L Shetty and K A Menon, "Savings and Investment without Growth", May 24, 1980 and N A Majumdar, et al, "The High Saving Phase of the Economy, 1976-79" RBI Occasional Paper, June 1980.