پریس ریلز پاکستان کسان مزدور تحریک (پی کے ایم ٹی) ضلع شکارپور کا دوسرا ضلعی اجلاس بعنوان”صنعتی زراعت اور زرعی زمینوں پر قبضہ“ مورخہ20جون2021کومنعقدکیا گیا۔ جس میں ضلع بھرکے چھوٹے اور بے زمین کسان مزدوروں کی جانب سے شرکت کی گئی۔ اجلاس کی شروعات پی کے ایم ٹی کے ترانے سے کی گئی۔ 0پی کے […]
06.21.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Land Grab, Landgrabbing, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on بڑھتی ہوئی صنعتی زراعت اور زرعی زمینوں پر قبضہ: کسانوں کا لائحہ عمل
04.01.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Land Grab, Landgrabbing, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on ‘Only land redistribution can address peasants’ problems’
KARACHI: Representatives of farmers and agricultural workers and non-governmental organisations working for their rights at a webinar organised on Monday asked the government to provide immediate and substantial economic relief through social protection initiatives and subsidies that reach all marginalised sectors, especially women. They also called upon the government to ensure that pandemic-related actions do […]
03.30.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Land Grab, Landgrabbing, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on End corporate control in food and agriculture! Fight for genuine land reform and rural development to truly transform the world’s food systems!
Day of the Landless 2021, Joint Statement Today, Day of the Landless, we – farmers and peasants, poor farmhands, agricultural workers, contract farmers, Dalits, rural women and youth, and land reform advocates across Asia – vow to further our resolve in fighting against landlessness. Landlessness breeds social injustice, hunger, and impoverishment. Landlessness is a bane […]
03.30.2021
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Press Release ;29 March – Day of the Landless March 29, 2021 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity joined hands with the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) to mark March 29, 2021 as the Day of the Landless. In this regard, a webinar was held to highlight the urgent need for genuine agrarian […]
03.30.2021
Categories: COVID-19, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Landgrabbing, Landless, Resistance, Women | Comments Off on زمین سے محروم کسانوں کا نعرہ: زمین کا منصفانہ اور مساویانہ ہو بٹوارہ
بے زمینوں کا عالمی دن پریس ریلیز March 29, 2021 پاکستان کسان مزدور تحریک (پی کے ایم ٹی) اور روٹس فار ایکوٹی نے ایشین پیزنٹ کولیشن (اے پی سی) کے اشتراک سے 29 مارچ، 2021 کو بے زمینوں کا دن منایا۔ اس حوالے سے ایک وبینار کا اہتمام کیا گیا جس میں کسانوں کا […]
02.12.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Intellectual property rights over plants and seeds opposed
Our Correspondent; February 12, 2021 Leaders of the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity on Wednesday criticised the Ministry of National Food Security and Research’s recent decision to start the registration process for granting intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plants and seeds under the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act, 2016 and said that […]
02.12.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Farmers condemn launch of Plant Breeders’ Rights Registry
Faiza Ilyas KARACHI: Describing a recent federal government decision to launch Plant Breeders’ Rights Registry from Feb 15 as ‘illegal’ and ‘unethical’, representatives of Pakistan Kisan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) at a press conference held at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday demanded that all laws granting control over agriculture to “imperialist states and corporations” be […]
02.10.2021
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Plant Breeders’ Right Act – an Anti-Farmer Law
Press Release; February 10, 2021 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on February 10th, 2021 to protest against the decision of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to start the registration process for granting intellectual property rights over plants and seeds under […]
01.01.2021
Categories: Agroecology, COVID-19, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on PKMT organises conference on impact of pandemic
SUKKUR: The 13th Annual Conference on “Impact on Peasants and Labourers during the Pandemic” was organised by the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) through video link. While talking about the national and global impact of Covid-19, Dr Azra Talat Syed, Roots for Equity, said the global capitalist system was responsible for the pandemic. She said […]