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 …
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle stands with the people across the globe who face impacts of the intensifying imperialist wars of aggression and the climate, food and debt crises that have left the masses devastated. Millions of people, especially the working class, the peasantry, and migrant workers face loss of livelihood and land, being forced into modern slavery, living …
by: Shobha Shukla Recently, over 500 feminist leaders from 38 countries across Asia and the Pacific region gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand at the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF 2024) to deliberate upon their collective journeys for building a world that is free of patriarchy, corporate capitalism, imperialism and colonialism, militarism and religious fundamentalism.A feminist fossil-fuel free world is …
KARACHI: Highlighting the hazards of genetically modified (GM) crops, the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) has urged the National Biosafety Commission (NBC) to reject the proposal for commercialisation of two GM sugar cane crops. In a press release, the PKMT stated that it strongly opposed the recent move of the Technical Advisory Committee, operating under the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), …
Export, Starve, Export The current fiscal year (FY) has shown a consistent increase in export of raw food products. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the food export value has more than doubled to $787.36 million in January, up 105.29 per cent from $383.54m in the same month last year. Food exports grew 57.66 percent in the first seven …
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 …