Mobilizing Communities for an Equitable World
Aliza Khalid | December 21, 2025 Geopolitical tensions have been directly pushing the seventh session of the United Nations Climate Assembly towards timid, lowest-common-denominator outcomes, as great-power rival states stripped draft resolutions of binding language and turned them into soft ‘cooperation’ statements,” said Wali Haider, leading the Farmers’ Major Group, at UNEA-7. The FMG participated in meetings, submitted statements and …
STATEMENT FOR THE 2025 DAY OF THE LANDLESS – 29 March 2025 We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society organizations, reaffirm the anti-imperialist position and the centrality of the peasant struggle for land, food, and justice in achieving sustainable agriculture and …
Wheat Fiasco The month is marked by many critical happenings pertaining to political economy of agriculture. The issue of wheat importation as well as lack of wheat procurement from farmers, which had also been discussed in the previous issue, deserves further attention. Many aspects of the wheat fiasco are worth highlighting. First, that the shortfall in the amount of wheat …
The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) is marking the “World Hunger Day’ on October 16, 2024 – a day which is marked by the United Nations as the World Food Day. However, the global data by the same esteemed organization gives a poor condition of food security, globally and in Pakistan, which has been ranked 109th out of 127 nations in …
Wheat as Food or Wheat as Lucre? The country is going through a period of dismal debt and economic crisis that is further worsened by the climate crisis. Government policies do not necessarily help in alleviating the dire situation. While the government had been expecting a bumper wheat crop, and directives were given for ‘good price’ for the farmers, and …
Women’s Rights or Corporate rights? In the recent months the focus on women farmers remains a stream. A class analysis of rural women has put them in three categories: land owners, workers on family farms, and landless labor. The first category is no doubt the smallest category, but is representative of the powerful feudal base of the country, enjoying fruits …
Unabating Debt With the start of a new year, the situation in the country sees no real change in terms of economic stability. It is unfortunate that in 75 years, it has gone to the IMF 23 times for financial bailout programs. The State Bank of Pakistan has received the second tranche of $700 million, which is approximately equivalent to …
May 30, 2024: A Sustainable Production and Consumption Education (SPACE) program conducted at a Gulshan Public School in Karachi. Students participated in discussions on patriarchy, colonization, Pakistan’s debt, and climate change. Young people are our most valuable asset and must be a forward force in our development.
Agriculture production is the center of Pakistan’s economy is a fact and needs no reiteration. However, the sector is besieged by many ills of which the main is the consistent dependency on resources external to the country. There are many examples of such tendencies. According to the Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Dr Kauser Malik, Sino-Pak agricultural …
Asian Peasant Coalition’s Statement on the Day of the Landless 2024 2024 marks the 9th year since the Asian Peasant Coalition determined the 29th of March as global “Day of the Landless” to be annually commemorated in 2015. And despite the promise of improvement and development from the global north, the condition of landlessness persists and negligible changes have transpired …