 I am Professor H. M. Deserda, by academic training and background I am an economist and I have been member of the Maharashtra State Planning Board that is at the state level in policy making body and I have been in a social activism and I have been part of myself and I look to the land issues from an ecological and ethical perspective because land is not just another resource, it is in fact the life support system, it is the sustenance and livelihood as everyone knows and you see the whether it is a farming or other kinds of land use they are just using the land in a very indiscriminate manner and they are not caring for the natural capital that is embedded in land and that natural capital in land for example there is a Parviju degradation and erosion of land resources nature takes hundreds and thousands of years to make a few centimetres of top soil which we are destroying in India particularly and the methods of cultivation the crop pattern and in the urban areas the urban buildings architecture there is no land policy which is in a very strict sense ecological environment friendly and ethical and that is why the need is for a land policy or land practices which has a respectful reverence for nature and among that the land is a very crucial element in fact the land is the water is a renewable resource forest or fauna is also depend on land but unless we care for the land and the planet earth I think we will not be able to really manage we will not able to really survive not alone manage the whole challenge that is presented and the security of the planet and people is the prime concern today and in the wake of climate change and the fossil fuels which are the main cause of the climate change and agriculture finally I would say industrial and chemical farming it's days are over for the human health and for the health of the planet and people we need to get back to the farming system which I call low external input sustainable agriculture that means agriculture which is organic or agriculture which is eco-friendly which is a pro-poor pro-women and pro-nature