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 …
Category: Seed Sovereignty
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 …
Feeding our “Swarming Millions”
Azra Talat Sayeed The question of “feeding the stomach of our swarming millions’ keeps getting raised over and over again. It seems that there is no other way to reach this objective without accepting genetically modified seeds. But such a myopic viewpoint can only be termed nonsensical. Hunger can easily be assuqged without GMO crops, if only our government would …
WHY WE MUST OPPOSE GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS?
A Brief prepared by Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek and Roots for Equity Seed was born free. It has multiple functions: it is the reservoir of genetic resources, it is the basic unit for our food, it holds life in its core, essential for maintain human and all life on this planet. Commodification of seed is commodification of life! Following are …