Bureau ReportMarch 30, 2020 PESHAWAR: The organisations working for welfare of peasants and farmers have called upon the government to ensure that the lockdowns and quarantines are not carried out at the expense of the food security of the people. They asked the government to provide immediate economic relief to the marginalised sectors including the […]
03.31.2020
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03.29.2020
Categories: Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Land Grab, Landgrabbing, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on Assert and Defend the Rights of Small and Landless farmers amid the COVID-19 pandemic!
Press Release: Day of the Landless 2020, March 29, 2020 Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) join hand with Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) to mark the Day of the Landless March 29, 2020. Today, we commemorate the Day of the Landless with […]
03.12.2020
Categories: Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative Awareness Program
PKMT Jazba Farmers’ Cooperative organized an awareness session program based on the Agroecology farming and sustainable agriculture on village level at different districts of Sindh, Punjab and KP. In Sindh district Tando Mohammad Khan, Shikarpur and Ghotki, in Punjab district Multan and in KP district Haripur and Lower Dir the session were organized. The session […]
03.09.2020
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Press Release March 8, 2020 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity in collaboration with International Alliance for Women (IWA), Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD) and Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PANAP) organized a women’s assembly in village Raees Baksh Lashari, district Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh to […]
02.12.2020
Categories: Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on Political Educational Program (Pre PEP)
In the first week of February, Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) organized the political educational (Pre-PEP) programs in Mansehra (KPK), Rajanpur and Multan (Punjab) and Khairpur (Sindh). In the educational programs, firstly the class distribution and its origin were discussed. The root cause of the issue and the circumstances which are behind it were also […]
01.03.2020
Categories: Farmer, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on “Corporate Agriculture: Decent Livelihood, Pure Nutritious Food and Environmental Justice Impossible!” (PKMT) 12th Annual Assembly
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) held its 12th Annual Conference 28, December, 2019 in Jampur, Rajanpur. The theme of the conference was “Corporate Agriculture: Decent Livelihood, Pure Nutritious Food and Environmental Justice Impossible!” The Annual conference started with the registration of the members from various districts of the country. The 12th PKMT General Assembly was […]
11.20.2019
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Bureau Report November 20, 2019 PESHAWAR: A group of farmers belonging to various rural localities of the provincial capital have expressed serious concern over their forced eviction from the area for the construction of Peshawar Northern Bypass and demanded of the government to compensate them. Addressing a protest demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club on Monday, […]
10.17.2019
Press Release: World Hunger Day, October 16, 2019 The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is celebrating the World Food Day on October 16, 2019 as “Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World.” It is unfortunate that it seems to have slipped FAO’s notice that the very people who produce food for the whole […]
09.19.2019
Categories: Farmer, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on Farmers hold demo against eviction
Bureau Report; September 19, 2019 PESHAWAR: Farmers belonging to different villages of Peshawar held a protest demonstration in front of the Peshawar Press Club against eviction from their land being acquired for construction of the Northern Bypass. The demonstration was jointly arranged by Kissan Action Committee, Haryana Bala, and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek wherein farmers […]
09.18.2019
Categories: Farmer, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on No to Peasants’ Eviction from Haryana Bala, Peshawar
Press Release September 18, 2019 Kissan Action Committee Haryana Bala, Peshawar held a protest demonstration in front of the Peshawar Press Club against their eviction from their land due to the construction of the Northern Bypass. The landless farmers have been working on this land for the last 80 years, having been the first to […]