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ASSERT OUR RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Categories: Agroecology, Dairy and Livestock, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, Landless, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on بچاؤ دیہی انمول اثاثے؛ مہم برائے مال مویشی و دودھ

پریس ریلیز| 8 مارچ 2023 پاکستان کسان مزدور تحریک نے مزدور عورتوں کے عالمی دن 8 مارچ، 2023 کو ”بچاؤ دیہی انمول اثاثے؛ مہم برائے مال مویشی و دودھ“ کا آغاز کیا ہے۔ اس مہم کا مقصد حکومت کے تازہ قدرتی کھلے دودھ پر مکمل پابندی کے قانون، دودھ اور مال مویشی کے شعبے میں […]

Categories: Agroecology, Climate Change, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on بھوک کا عالمی دن 2022: خوراک کی خود مختاری اور موسمیاتی انصاف کی جدوجہد

پریس ریلیز 16 اکتوبر 2022 زراعت اور خوراک کا عالمی ادارہ فاؤ دنیا کی اشرافیہ کے ساتھ ملکر آج خوراک کا عالمی دن منا رہی ہے جبکہ چھوٹے اور بے زمین کسانوں، شہری اور دیہی مزدوروں اور عوام کے لیے یہ بھوک کا عالمی دن ہے۔ پوری دنیا میں بھوک اور قحط کی موجودہ صورتحال […]

Categories: Agroecology, Farmers, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Modified Seeds, Landgrabbing, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty, Women | Comments Off on Farmers Reject United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)

Press Release 22 September 2021 Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek held the National Food Systems Summit at Renewal Center, Lahore on September 22, 2021. The National Summit was held as national mobilization towards the Global People’s Summit (GPS) for Just, Equitable, Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems. The GPS has been organized through […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Categories: Farmer, Genetic Modified Seeds, GMOs, Resistance, Seed Sovereignty | Comments Off on Say no to GM maize

March 01, 2019 Zubeida Mustafa THERE is bad news and there is good news for our environmentalists, agriculturalists, healthcare givers and all those who care for the welfare of Pakistan. First, the bad news. In January, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Cargill, the global food and agricultural producer with an annual revenue of $114.6 […]