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Women and Agriculture in Kerala State: Collective responses by Kudumbashree during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Resmi P Bhaskaran and Rajesh Ravi Three years into the pandemic, this report assesses the track record of the Indian state of Kerala in addressing the health and livelihood challenges during …

Food sovereignty and agrobiodiversity Illustration: Colour drawing on amate bark-paper by the artist Abraham Mauricio Salazar. Reproduced for informational purposes from the book El ciclo mágico de los días, by Abraham Mauricio Salazar and Antonio Saldívar. CONAFE, Mexico, 1979. At a time when the m …

Author: Jaya Mehta The author is a Delhi based researcher with the Joshi-Adhikari Institute of Social Studies.   This timely report by agriculture economist Jaya Mehta begins with an analysis of the 2020 agricultural reforms in India and the role of women in the historic and successful struggle …

New Avenues of State and Private Surveillance and Possible Responses by Jai Vipra Surveillance has long been one of the primary threats to political and economic activism. Emerging digital technology interacts with the practice of surveillance to strengthen and broaden it, leading to retaliation and …

Nyéléni process: Towards a Global Forum of Food Sovereignty Illustration: Rosanna Morris Under the eye of Nyéléni, an African woman who defied discriminatory regulations and burned with creativity and agricultural progress, we will find the energy to transform the right to food sovereignty into a be …

The articles in this dossier were written in the run up to the MC12. They present analyses by Focus on the Global South, social movements and civil Society Organisations on the issues at stake at MC 12, deep flaws in WTO agreements and why developing countries need to walk away from the WTO. The out …

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will host its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC) from 12-15 June 2022 in the looming shadow of the pandemic and the Ukraine war. Key issues at Geneva include the proposed waiver of patents to ensure access to COVID vaccines and therapeutics, agriculture, fisheries an …

Author: D Raghunandan One of the saddest episodes of the COVID catastrophe in India was that of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who found themselves stranded, abandoned, and compelled to make their way back to their villages after an ill planned national lockdown. Once the lockdown was lift …

Small-scale fishers: Struggles and mobilisations Illustration by Cara Penton, @CaraPenton The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to highlight the importance of artisanal fishing and aquaculture. Over the past ten years, and …

On June 10, 2021 over 260 participants from 112 organizations, 11 schools, 4 local government units, and the media participated in an Indigenous Peoples Town Hall-style discussion. Organized under the banner of 1Sambubungan, the initiative brought together a total of 18 indigenous tribes from Luzon, …