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 …
Year: 2019
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 …
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 …