The Negative Impact of Privatisation on Water & Plant Genetic Resources in India

This two-part case study focusses on India, for reasons included in the eBook itself. However, it is worth noting that with the emergence of BRICS as a global geopolitical force and their significant influence with countries in the global south, matters that affect India are now of global significance. As India is the EU’s newest and potentially most significant alternative trade partners, with relations between the EU and America being very strained.

Therefore, how India has historically treated natural resources in the light of neoliberal economic policy is of key importance today, particularly in the context of recent pronouncements at Davos by Western leaders that neoliberalism in the form of globalisation is now dead, as of the beginning of 2026.