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 […]
10.17.2019
10.17.2019
Press Release 15 October 2019 Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) celebrated the Rural Women’s Day along with Pesticide Action Network, Asia Pacific (PANAP), International Women Alliance (IWA), Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and other people’s organizations. PKMT organized a Conference at Kamilpur Village of district Haripur in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pakistan. At the […]
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 […]
08.21.2019
Categories: Farmer | Comments Off on No to Indian Occupation of Jammu and Kashmir
Press Release August 15, 2019 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek, Sojhla for Social Change, Roots for Equity and other civil society groups held a protest to mark India’s Day of Independence as a Black Day to show their solidarity with the people of Indian Occupied Kashmir, in front of the Multan Press Club. Today about eight […]
06.17.2019
Tariq Mehmood Former coordinator Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek KPK “The federal budget offers us nothing,” says Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek’s former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa coordinator Tariq Mehmood. His biggest concerns are about seed development and lack of support for small and landless farmers. Farmers’ reliance on imported seeds is increasing day-by-day as indigenous seed is not […]
04.03.2019
Categories: Farmer, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on Panelists call for ending role of corporate sector in agriculture
Bureau Report March 30, 2019 PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Friday demanded an end to the role of international corporate sector in agriculture, opposed the ever-increasing allotment of land to the corporate sector and called for just and equitable distribution of land among small and landless farmers in order to turn Pakistan into a […]
04.03.2019
Categories: Farmer, Land Grab, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on Distribution of agri lands among landless farmers urged
Bureau Report March 30, 2019 PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) has asked the government to take notice of the distribution of the state land to companies, allotment of state land to investors on lease and ongoing development projects. Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club, PKMT’s Asif Khan demanded equal distribution of […]
03.30.2019
Categories: Farmer, Genetic Modified Seeds, Landless, Resistance | Comments Off on PKMT Demands Land for the Landless!
Press Release March 29, 2019 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity in collaboration with Asian Peasant Coalition, Pesticide Action Network, Asia Pacific and International Women’s Alliance commemorated the International Day of the Landless, which was marked by the slogan “We Will Take Back Our Land, Our Future!” Globally, the Day of the […]
03.26.2019
Categories: Farmer, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on Power To The Peasants: Reclaiming Lands, Reclaiming The Future
26/03/2019 Part one of a two-part features series on the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in commemoration of the Day of the Landless on 29 March. Perhaps there is no greater irony in the 21st century than the fact of landlessness that millions of peasants grapple with in the face of a global land rush — […]