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. She is working to highlight the work of …
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Lessons from Corona: Smash Capitalism!
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only exposed the ineffectiveness of the capitalist system to deal with a crisis but also its criminal tendency to disregard hunger and impoverishment suffered by the masses at this critical juncture, prioritizing profits over people. Further, the imperialist anti-labor policies have also been well exposed. Neoliberal policies have bereft nation-states of financial, material and human …
Women’s Resistances for Rights
March 8th International Women’s Day Press ReleasePakistan 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 celebrate the International Women’s …
خصوصی تحریر: گندم کا بحران
پاکستان بھر میں عوام گندم اور آٹے کی قیمت میں تیزی سے ہوتے اضافے سے پریشان ہیں اور اس کی مناسب یا سرکاری قیمت کو یقینی بنانے والے تمام تر ادارے چاہے و وفاقی ہوں یا صوبائی مہنگائی کے اس بے قابو ہوتے جن کو بوتل میں بند کرنے سے قاصر ہیں۔ ایک سال پہلے تک گندم کے وافر ذخائر …
SPACE program at Gulshan Public School:
SPACE program held a two-day event for grade 5-10 studentson 13 February, 2019. A total of 210 students participated in these activities. Two different modules were used for the events. For grade 5th to 7th a basic module was used to highlight the importance of safe and nutritious healthy food. Children were shown different pictures of two different categories of …
SPACE Program
Sustainable Production and Consumption Education (SPACE) Program; was organized in Karachi High School (KHS) from November 29 to December 5, 2019. As outputs of the intervention, students have been assigned short projects to produced comic strips, presentations and art work as an outcome of these series of activities. Grade XI children were taken to a number of villages in Tando …
Women Constituency STATEMENT ON Civil Society Mechanism (CSM)
Public Panel Public Debate: 10 Years After the Committee on Food Security (CFS) Reform Civil Society Forum 2019, Rome, Italy 12-13 October, 2019 Azra Talat Sayeed Women Constituency, Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) The main thrust of the intervention was: The Committee on World Food Security is facing many problems. These problems include the struggle between powerful countries such as the …
Farmers Major Group Statement on SDG 8 at HLPF 2019, United Nation
I am Wali Haider from Roots for Equity, Pakistan representing Farmers Major Group and the co-chair of APRCEM. The Goal 8 on decent work is of extreme importance to farmers. It is the farmers who provide food to the entire globe yet they and their families, their children live in hunger suffering from malnourishment. The world we live in remains …
PCFS Statement – To AIIB: Stopbankrolling landgrabs
The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) to stop funding projects especially of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that result to landgrabbing and rural peoples’ displacement. On the occasion of the AIIB’s annual meeting this July 12-13 in Luxembourg, we stand with the rural peoples on their call …
ہم جینیاتی بیج کی مخالفت کیوں کرتے ہیں؟
بیج اپنی پیدائش سے ایک آزادقدرتی وسیلہ ہے جس کے کئی افعال ہیں، بیج جینیاتی وسائل کا ایک ذخیرہ ہے اور ہماری خوراک کا ایک ایسا بنیادی جز ہے جو اپنے اندر زندگی سمو کر کرہ ارض پر ناصرف انسان بلکہ ہر جاندار کی زندگی کو رواں رکھتا ہے۔ اس لیے بیج کو تجارتی جنس بنانا ایسا ہی ہے جیسے …