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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