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As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security. 'Operation Flood', which revitalised the Indian dairy industry between 1970 and 1996, was the world's largest development programme, however critics accused it of luring India to neocolonial dependence on European surpluses. Eventually the perils of reliance on food aid were managed by proper pricing policies that both benefited rural farming families and wiped out urban 'milk famines'. In 2008 the World Bank hailed the programme's s

Development aid. Development cooperation --- Third World: agricultural and food problems --- India --- Agriculture and state -- India. --- Dairying, Cooperative -- India. --- Economic assistance, European -- India. --- Food supply -- India -- International cooperation. --- Operation Flood Project (India). --- Agriculture and state --- Dairying, Cooperative --- Food supply --- Economic assistance, European --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Economic History --- International cooperation --- International cooperation. --- Operation Flood Project (India) --- Economic development --- European economic assistance --- Food control --- Cooperative dairying --- Dairy cooperatives --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- India. --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems