October 16: World Hunger DayPress ReleaseOctober 16, 2020 Roots for Equity and the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) in collaboration with People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Pesticide Action Network, Asia and Pacific (PAN AP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is marking the World Food Day as World Hunger Day on October 16, 2020. A webinar and protest has been …
Year: 2020
Promoting the work of farmers while sitting in the city
Introduction:This is a summary of an interview of Ms Maheen Zia conducted by Naveed Ahmed, Seed Sovereignty Program Coordinator from Roots for Equity. The context of the interview is on Maheen Zia’s work with Karachi Farmer’s Market-based in Karachi, Pakistan.Ms Zia is one of the key founders of the Karachi Farmer’s Market. She is working to highlight the work of …
Lessons from Corona: Smash Capitalism!
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only exposed the ineffectiveness of the capitalist system to deal with a crisis but also its criminal tendency to disregard hunger and impoverishment suffered by the masses at this critical juncture, prioritizing profits over people. Further, the imperialist anti-labor policies have also been well exposed. Neoliberal policies have bereft nation-states of financial, material and human …
Women’s Resistances for Rights
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 …
خصوصی تحریر: گندم کا بحران
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 at Gulshan Public School:
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 …
SPACE Program
Sustainable Production and Consumption Education (SPACE) Program; was organized in Karachi High School (KHS) from November 29 to December 5, 2019. As outputs of the intervention, students have been assigned short projects to produced comic strips, presentations and art work as an outcome of these series of activities. Grade XI children were taken to a number of villages in Tando …