GT Sujatha and her husband M Jagadish run a four-acre farm that is ten years… Read more →
KRRS
“Namdu” – a producers’ cooperative run and managed by farmers in Karnataka, India
In a move to strengthen food sovereignty and to promote rural self-sufficiency, Karnataka Rajya Raitha… Read more →
India: KRRS farmers protest in different districts across Karnataka against amendments to land law
Since the time Karnataka government announced that it would bring amendments to the Karnataka Land… Read more →
India: Social Movements upset that the government is exploiting the pandemic to push through corporate-friendly reforms
Since India went into a strict lock-down in late March this year, the national ruling… 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 →
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 →
Private Financial Firms threaten to undermine self-financing initiatives of rural peasant women in South India
Karnataka, a state in Southern India, has been declared drought ridden for 11 of the… Read more →
