Preparation of land for sowing seeds has been started on one acre land of the farmer named Bakhtiar Zaib from district Lower Deer, Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa. The Farmer is spreading organic manure on the field to make it ready to implant seeds. […]
11.16.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative Lower Dir Farm Land Preparation
11.11.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative Muzaffargarh Farm Seeds Sowing
On November 10, 2020, PKMT Jazba cooperative sown 25 different varieties of wheat seeds in Muzaffargarh agroecology farm Muzaffargarh, Punjab. The farm is divided into two swaths of land, one is comprising of seven plots of 3.5 Marla in which 4 kilograms of seed sowed in each plot. The second swaths of land comprised 18 […]
10.19.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on “Rural People are Hungry for Food System Change”
Press Release October 16, 2020 Roots for Equity and the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) in collaboration with People’s Coalition for Food Security (PCFS), Pesticide Action Network, Asia and Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is marking the World Food Day as World Hunger Day on October 16, 2020. A webinar and protest has […]
10.06.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, General, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Inspiration to create a Farmer’s Market
Introduction: This is a summary of an interview of Ms Maheen Zia conducted by Naveed Ahmed, Seed Sovereignty Program Coordinator from Roots for Equity. The context of the interview is on Maheen Zia’s work with Karachi Farmer’s Market based in Karachi, Pakistan. Ms Zia is one of the key founders of the Karachi Farmer’s Market. […]
09.23.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, GMOs, Landgrabbing, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Boosting Performing Art Skills of Theatre Artistes working on Social Change
Imam Uddin Soomro is an active member of the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT), an alliance of small-scale and landless farmers including women farmers. Imam collects data on crops and conducts awareness sessions for farmers on sustainable agriculture, green revolution and globalization. As a member of a local theatre group named, PUKAR, since 2018, Imam […]
05.26.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Resistance, Women | Comments Off on Free virus testing for workers demanded
Bureau Report May 02, 2020 PESHAWAR: The rights activists on Friday demanded of the government to start free mass coronavirus testing, especially for workers and farmers, besides ensuring their social protection. The demand was made during a webinar organised by Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek and NGO Roots for Equity here to mark the Labour Day. […]
05.01.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Landless, Resistance, Women | Comments Off on کورونا کا سبق: سرمایہ داری کا خاتمہ لازم
یکم مئی: مزدوروں کا عالمی دن پریس ریلز یکم مئی 2020 دنیا بھر میں یکم مئی، 1886 میں شکاگو کے مزدوروں کی جدوجہد کی یاد میں مزدوروں کے عالمی دن کے طور پر منایا جاتا ہے۔ پاکستان کسان مزدور تحریک (پی کے ایم ٹی) اور روٹس فار ایکوٹی نے لاک ڈاؤن کی پابندیوں کے پیش […]
04.27.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative proceeding towards Harvesting
Under the PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative, farmers from all over Pakistan have started agroecological farms. They have sown the traditional seeds and make organic compost. As time passes the farmers from Sindh and Punjab are now sampling the crops and started harvesting and thrashing. The farmers from Shikarpur, Ghotki Tando M Khan (Sind) and Multan […]
01.27.2020
Categories: Agroecology, Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on Preparation of Green Compost at the lands of women Farmers in Punjab and Sindh
Under the base of PKMT Jazba farmers cooperative there are four Agro ecological farms which tend by women. A woman’s presence led farms are entirely new experience and will be a model for rural women empowerment. Farmers are having meetings and preparing green compost for their crops.