{"id":125,"date":"2018-11-14T05:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walihaider.dx.am\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2019-05-25T04:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:59:55","slug":"mobilizing-young-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rootsforequity.org\/?page_id=125","title":{"rendered":"Mobilizing Young People for Equitable Production and Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roots for Equity was formed in 1997 and formally registered in 2000. The organization works with the most vulnerable, marginalized communities that include small and landless farmers, women and religious minorities in the rural and urban sector. We believe that a genuine democratic base is essential for the social and economic development of the country. This is not possible without mobilization of communities themselves; no doubt only socially conscious and politically active communities can demand and achieve social justice. Roots for Equity remains committed to being an active part of communities\u2019 struggle to achieve political, social, economic and environmental justice.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Roots for Equity has four major thematic areas of work which include Food Sovereignty, Women\u2019s Rights, Climate Justice, and Children\u2019s Education program. Various<\/a>\u00a0publications reach out to a larger public to keep them abreast of local, national and global happenings in the context of achievement and impediments to Food Sovereignty and Development Justice. Roots for Equity is a strong proponent of food sovereignty and believes that this framework is the most powerful collective response by small producers in demanding decent lives and livelihood. Roots for Equity\u2019s main programmatic thrust is on achieving food sovereignty, a concept which demands inter generational production and consumption sustainability of society based on right to safe, healthy, nutritious, food, equitable distribution of resources, decent livelihood, and climate justice.<\/p>\n

The issues faced in food and agriculture production are based in structural impediments: on one hand, inequitable distribution of resources especially land; and on the other hand, in the practice of industrial agriculture which relies heavily on the use of chemicals which overtime have proven extremely dangerous to health of all living beings as well as being ecologically destructive. Globally, more than 500 million people suffer from hunger; in Pakistan, the situation is no less alarming. Pakistani people, particularly our children in every province suffer from extremely high levels of malnourishment. For instance, key findings of National Nutrition Survey of 2011 are:<\/p>\n