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India: Farmers present an eighteen point demand to all political parties
All India Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movement comprising all the major farmers unions in India… Read more →
India: Peasant Movements to scrutinise and expose the dangers of RCEP Trade Agreement
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade partnership, which will open India’s… Read more →
RCEP: Indian peasant movements and allies warn against obligations on patenting seeds, plant varieties
Farmers groups and agricultural researchers in India have sent a letter today to the Prime Minister, with a copy to the relevant trade negotiators of India, urging the government not to accept any damaging intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions in the RCEP that will impact farmers’ seed freedoms and their access to planting materials.
South India Floods: Paddy farmers, plantations, poultry and dairy sector suffer severe losses
Kerala, a Southern State in India, suffered devastating losses after torrential rains that lashed the… Read more →
A major breakthrough in scaling up agroecological farming in Karnataka, India
26 June 2018, Bengaluru, India: After the much publicised commitment of the State of Andhra… Read more →
India: Farmers in Karnataka distribute mangoes for free to protest against steep fall in prices
This report originally appeared in The Hindu on 15 June People visiting the Deputy Commissioner’s… Read more →
India Enraged: Farmers warn of larger agitation if the government continues with its apathy
In two days, two major cities of India – Mumbai and Delhi – witnessed thousands… Read more →
Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto: Indian farmers send their objections to Competition Commission
On 25 January, the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (ICCFM), placed on record their… Read more →
Farmers storm India’s national capital, demanding freedom from debt and better price for their produce
Several thousand small-holder farmers from across India held a massive demonstration in New Delhi, from… Read more →
