Posted on November 13, 2017 International New York Times, Nov. 9, 2017 Danny Hakim Opposition from France and Italy doomed a European Union vote on Thursday to reauthorize the world’s most popular weedkiller, glyphosate, a decision that came hours after Arkansas regulators moved to ban an alternative weedkiller for much of 2018. The decisions are a double blow to the agrochemical …
Year: 2018
THREAT TO STOP SELLING BT COTTON SEEDS IRRESPONSIBLE: MAHYCO MONSANTO
Posted on January 22, 2018 17 January 2017 The war of words between Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited (MMBL) and the National Seed Association of India (NSAI) continues with MMBL issuing a rebuttal to the allegation made by the latter on the failure of Bollgard II and its consequences. MMBL has contended that it is not responsible for development of resistance in pink bollworm and …
Authorities get another chance to respond to plea against amended seed act
Posted on June 11, 2018 Justice Sayyed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court on Friday expressed serious concerns over the failure of the authorities concerned to submit a reply on a petition challenging the Pakistan (Amended) Seed Act 2015. The judge remarked, “It is shocking that local farmers’ future has been put in jeopardy,” adding that the amended law could endanger …
WORLD FOODLESS DAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018
Posted on October 16, 2018 PRESS RELEASE The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrates the World Food Day on October 16 every year. This year FAOs slogan is “A#ZeroHunger World by 2030 is possible.” But across the world, small and landless farmers, labour organizations commemorate the day as “World Hunger Day”. Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT), Roots for Equity, PAN AP, …
UNEP-Women’s Major Group on COP21
Posted on February 15, 2016 Based on the Document: ‘Proposed resolution for UNEA on Paris Agreement’ & ‘A Reality Check on the Paris Agreement from the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC)’ While the others might want us to move forward with the process, the Women and Gender Constituency provided a reality check. So, what does it really mean to promote an …
Statement of the Farmer’s Major Group at UNEA 2 during COW (Committee of Whole)
Posted on May 24, 2016 May 24, 2016 Respected Chair, Excellences, Delegates. Colleagues from the UN Agencies, Major Groups and the CSOs I am Wali Haider from Roots for Equity, Pakistan representing farmer major group Unstainable practice of over extraction and overproduction is at the heart of unsustainable consumption and production. Agriculture and food production being marked as a lucrative sector …
Climate Change Impacts: From the Farmlands to Squatter Settlements.
Posted on July 20, 2016 Azra Talat Sayeed, Roots for Equity July 13, 2016 In Pakistan, the word climate change-related disasters are generally related to upheaval of rural communities, especially riverine communities. However, what has happened today in a squatter settlement of Guslhan-e-Iqbal, Karachi belies this belief. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on July 10, issued a warning about the “weather …
Climate Change: a saga of disasters for riverine farmers in Pakistan!
Posted on July 26, 2016 The endless suffering of the riverine area farmers in Pakistan depicts the disaster that climate change is bringing to the most vulnerable marginalized communities. In March 2015, sudden rains and low floods had washed away the almost ready to harvest wheat crops of various villages along the Chenab River in the area called Ghanta Ghar, Mozan Nawabpur, Multan …
Environment: The aftershocks of global warming
Posted on August 1, 2016 HAMID AHMAD MIR For the past three decades climatologists have been raising alarms about global warming and its consequences, and now geologists have also got involved in the issue. World’s renowned geologists are of the opinion that rapidly melting glaciers will result in increasing number of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. This is based on the …
GENETICALLY MODIFIED: GM CROPS – BOON OR BANE?
Posted on August 12, 2016 The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2016. Peer Muhammad ISLAMABAD: Experts are currently debating whether introduction of genetically modified crops (GMCs) would help fulfil nutritional requirements and improve agricultural productivity – or carry with it unwarranted adverse consequences if GMCs are introduced without following standard safety measures. The views were expressed during a brainstorming session on commercialisation of …