How the work of two Nobel Prize winners can guide policy in an uncertain world
Further, sugarcane is a thirsty crop. Its cultivation should be curbed, not increased. Water scarcity in India is widely projected as the country heats up with climate change. That fear of water scarcity, already working to discourage industrial investment, has to be reduced by reversing (smoothly, not suddenly) the ethanol mandate. In today’s terribly uncertain world, it is necessary to restore confidence in the certainty that domestic policy will be coherent on all fronts.
