Our Correspondent March 31, 2020 SUKKUR: Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity, a local NGO, joined hands with the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), and Pesticide Action Network Asia & the Pacific (PANAP) to mark the Landless Farmers Day. PKMT celebrated the Landless Farmers Day with utmost concern as landless farmers were among […]
03.31.2020
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03.31.2020
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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 […]
03.29.2020
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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 […]