Mobilizing Communities for an Equitable World
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Posted on June 19, 2018 Nov 2014 By Kasim Tirmizey The village of Kanwan Wali, a government sponsored tent community on an embankment vulnerable to flooding. | Photography: Kasim Tirmizey Kachchhi – sone di pachchhi. Riverine land is a basket of gold. – Punjabi proverb in the Shahpur District of Punjab1 Under a burning sun, the Khana Padosh tribe of the Moza …
Posted on June 19, 2018 By Our Correspondent Published: November 28, 2016 KARACHI: The government is not inefficient but they do not show their efficiency in matters related to public interest, said Azra Talat Sayeed, who is an activist and the executive director of Roots for Equity. She was addressing the audience at a discussion on ‘Food Justice and Farmers’ Rights’ held at …