Farmers in Pakistan mobilize to demand fair prices and agrarian reform
Farmers allege that successive governments in the country have failed to address concerns raised by majority of the country’s farmers and continue to serve the interests of big landlords and international capital
Haitian and Mexican farmworkers in Immokalee: A story of Black history and labor solidarity
Decades ago, Haitian and Mexican farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, sparked a powerful movement that is reshaping US agriculture today.
Chinese machines arrive in Brazil, inaugurating the Brazil-China Center for Family Farming
The Chinese Minister of Education attended the inauguration for the Brazil-China Center for Research, Development, and Promotion of Technology and Mechanization for Family Farming.
Farmers in Pakistan organize to face the growing attacks on their livelihood
The government has not only failed to address the structural problems in country’s agriculture but has been in a hurry to please the IMF and big corporate houses which further pushes farmers to deprivation and poverty.
Indian farmers march on Delhi to protest unfulfilled demands
Thousands of farmers mobilized on Tuesday to raise longstanding demands including a Minimum Support Price for produce, loan waivers, and the scrapping of the Electricity Amendment Bill. As farmers approached the barricaded border between Punjab and Haryana, they were met with tear gas and water cannons.
Life inside the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement in Brazil
“Out there they call us riff raff. But we are really organized. And we are able to build much more than people out there believe.”
“Dialogue among family,” says MST leader on meeting with Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez
Agrarian reform, agro-ecology, and integration were topics discussed between the MST and the vice-president-elect of Colombia
WTO out of agriculture, demands global peasant movement in Geneva
Peasant and fisherfolk activists were among the drivers of civil society mobilizations at the WTO Ministerial Conference, where they called for the withdrawal of the organization from the agricultural sector
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