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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Plants Breeders Right Bill: Farmer Shackling Law
Posted on August 13, 2016 Press Release During the press conference PKMT national coordinator Raja Mujeeb, provincial coordinator sindh Ali Nawaz…
Decent Wages for Agricultural Laborers!
Posted on October 17, 2016 Press Release: World Hunger Day The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nation holds…
Farmers asked to avoid corporate agriculture
Posted on March 14, 2017 M Haleem Asad Speakers at a national conference named “Sustaining Lives and Livelihood: Fighting for Food…
Statement on behalf of Farmers Constituency during UNEP Senior Official Meeting
Posted on September 7, 2017 Agenda Item 8 Wali Haider, Roots for Equity, Pakistan Thank you Mr. Chairman! I am Wali…
Destruction of the Cotton Harvest: A Golden Opportunity for Transnational Corporations?
Posted on November 14, 2015 Dr. Azra Talat Sayeed In Pakistan, newspapers have been rife with news on the pink bollworm…