Mobilizing Communities for an Equitable World
The country’s economy is based on agricultural production. In Pakistan, out of 79.61 million hectares about 23.70 million hectares are under cultivation, of which a majority of situated in the Punjab and Sindh provinces. According to Professor Dr Ismail Kumbhar, Agriculture of Sindh Agriculture University, agriculture contributes about 19.5 per cent to the national gross domestic product (GDP) while providing …
Press Release | October 18, 2023 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity held the first Pakistan Peoples’ Caravan (PPC) on October 18, 2023, in Shikarpur, Sindh, as part of the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice. There are other caravans already organized for other parts of Pakistan in the coming weeks. The caravans will …
Press Release | World Hunger Day | October 16, 2023 The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity in collaboration with Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), Pesticide Action Network (PAN AP) are marking the “World Hunger Day’ on October 16, 2023 – a day which is considered to be World Food Day. A peasant gathering (JALSA) has been organized …
Press Release | International Day of Rural Women | October 15, 2023 We mark the Rural Women’s Day with grave concern! Though we are now in the 21st Century, and there is high technological development, the world is facing rising hunger, with rural women being at the highest rung of being the most marginalized, suffering from hunger, hunger wages, and …
IMF Conditionalities – the suffering of the people! The impacts of the IMF conditionalities set in its Standby Agreement that was signed last month have become glaringly visible in this month, and strikes, street protests and rallies have been held across the country. In Kamoke, and many others areas in Punjab, people burnt their electricity bills raising slogans against the …
There have been major developments in Pakistan’s food and agriculture system in a matter of weeks, where after the finalization of the deeply inhumane-IMF stand-by agreement, the government of Pakistan has adopted a new strategy for trade liberalization in food and agriculture. This will end in bringing fresh onslaught of misery and hunger for the people, especially women, children and …
“Save our Invaluable Rural Assets: Campaign for Dairy and Livestock” The People: Pay Heed! The government is imposing restrictions on fresh natural open milk; new laws have been made. The government has decreed it is necessary to pasteurize fresh natural open milk. Without pasteurization, fresh milk cannot be sold. Millions of small and landless farmers, workers, especially women farmers and …
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek has launched “Save Our Invaluable Rural Assets: Campaign against Corporate Control of Dairy and Livestock Sector in Pakistan.” As part of the campaign, PKMT is relaying 3 radio messages from Mast FM 103 Multan. PKMT is campaigning for control over its invaluable biodiversity against corporate control. Currently, small and landless farmers are the main producers and …
“Save our Invaluable Rural Assets: Campaign against Corporate Control of Dairy and Livestock Sector in Pakistan.” March 8, 2023 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity, on the occasion of the International Working Women’s Day on March 8, 2023, launches “Save our Invaluable Rural Assets: Campaign against Corporate Control of Dairy and Livestock Sector in Pakistan.” The campaign …
Press Release | October 16, 2022 The Food and Agriculture Organization, along with the elite of the world are celebrating World Food Day but for peasants, workers, the masses its World Hunger Day. The scrouge of hunger, looming famine is now a very grotesque face of globalization! Global hunger figures are again at an all-time high. In 2021, around 2.3 …