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• All India protest action and assertion of forests rights by movements on July 22nd
• Government should withdraw the Forest Amendment Act and effectively implement Forest Rights Act
• A joint protest by forests and land rights movements at Sansad marg, New Delhi on 28th November. New Delhi, 2 (...)
There is a vast thicket of challenges that the new government will face in ensuring farmers get remunerative prices for their crops.
Few would argue that no bigger challenge awaits the new Narendra Modi government than raising the incomes of India’s farmers.
The last five years saw large scale (...)
Irrigation politics, caste coalition competitors and money power – all three factors play an influential role.
A recent pre-poll survey, conducted days before the first round of voting for the Lok Sabha election, reported farming distress to be a “very real” issue among 10,010 respondents from (...)
Farmers sued for allegedly growing potatoes used in Lay’s crisps without permission
PepsiCo has faced a backlash after suing four Indian farmers who allegedly grew a patented strain of potatoes used in its Lay’s crisps without the company’s permission.
The company, which originally sought about (...)
“Modi Sarkar Murdabad! Murdabad! Murdabad!” (Down with the Modi government! Down! Down!)
This was one of the slogans that reverberated in the streets of New Delhi as tens of thousands of farmers marched through the Indian capital in the last two days of November. The protesters were demanding (...)
The agricultural reforms increased crop production but caused the problems that require stubble burning and pollution, writes Siddharth Singh in a new book.
Contrary to popular perception in urban India, residue burning is not an age-old practice. The practice – at this magnitude, frequency and (...)
On the occasion of Santoshi Kumari’s death anniversary, the Right To Food Campaign has issued a statement, in which it has put forth certain demands to stop starvation deaths in the state.
New Delhi: In the wake of starvation deaths in Jharkhand, the Right To Food Campaign has issued a (...)
The state has an opportunity to re-build a strong plantation sector with the right set of policies for the rest of the country to emulate.
Tragedies sometimes bring out the worst in us. Many of us received absurd WhatsApp forwards warning us about blindly donating to help Kerala flood victims. (...)
A government social audit conducted in April had found that 96.9% of ration card holders surveyed preferred the older system.
New Delhi: Close to ten months after it was launched, the Jharkhand government has said that it will be immediately terminating the direct benefits transfer (DBT) pilot (...)
The government sees ownership of land as necessary for one to be considered a ’farmer’, but patriarchal norms oppose inheritance to woman, leaving them unable to access benefits and rights.
On July 24, the minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare responded to this Lok Sabha question, “Whether (...)
Mamata Banerjee has threatened to cancel the land leases of tea estates if they fail to run properly. She also stated the intention of her government to recommend Rs. 176 as the daily minimum wage for tea garden workers. It is Rs. 159 a day currently. This comes in the wake of a number of tea (...)
While three-fourths of all women in the country are association with agricultural work, women accounted for only about 15 of the 1,500 farmers gathered at the march.
New Delhi: The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), comprising 200 farmers’ organisations from across the (...)
Using MGNREGA funds to subsidise farm labour is a recipe for disaster. It will greatly bring down the poverty reduction impact of the programme, harm the construction of much-needed rural infrastructure and dramatically diminish the labourers’ bargaining power vis-à-vis the farmers.
At the (...)
Imagine a democratic protest where a million farmers, labourers and others march to the capital and compel discussion of the exploding crisis of the countryside in a special three-week session of Parliament
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe (...)
The Modi government is pushing insurance schemes in agriculture. But are they really making a difference?
The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) gives insurance cover to farmers against calamities and crop loss, with an enhanced sum insured to cover the cost of cultivation. The premium (...)
Decentralised solar power, when utilised by unelectrified households, reduces money spent on kerosene but is not conducive to accessing larger social and economic benefits, acording to a recent study.
The study was conducted over a year in 1,281 households from 81 non-electrified rural (...)
Weeks after the Long March, the idea and image still lingers – of 40,000 people walking over 200 kilometres, the last 10–15 km in darkness and silence (as silent as it is possible for such a multitude to be). Those farmers and landless peasants walked into Mumbai, captured the city’s imagination (...)
Behind the “eco” rhetoric, the new policy is all about reducing community forest management and facilitating authorisations to transfer forest land to big investors and speculators. The draft policy should be completely rejected.
India’s forests are officially on sale. Forests, which are (...)
It has been a month since over 40,000 farmers walked 180 km from Nashik to Mumbai to press for their demands. They returned home with an assurance from the state’s chief minister that their demands would be met “100%”. Although chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that his government was “sensitive” towards the agitating farmers – almost all of whom belong to Adivasi communities – and in principle agreed to their demands, experts feel there is nothing new to such assurances. The farmers are (...)
Although the conservative farmers’ movement Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), remains firmly part of the ‘majoritarian cultural nationalist,’ movement, there are emerging fault lines between them and the right-wing Modi government. This can be seen for example in the increasing strength of BKS’s demands (...)
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