Farm and Forest

20 years of FRA 2006, J and K appoints Tribal Ministry as Nodal agency

Despite the Union government’s tardy approach since the passage of the historic Forest Rights Act in 2006, states such as Jammu and Kashmir are now taking the lead in securing indigenous land rights. Groups including the Wullar Bachav Front and the All India Union of Forest Working Peoples (AIUWFP) have been engaging with the state administration on the issue

Voices of dissent course through the country

Thousands of people came together to decry anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people laws passed by the Centre in recent days.

False narratives cannot fill a farmer’s empty stomach

Representatives of farmers talk about the importance of MSPs, the manipulation of MSP data at the government-level and the injustice of the three agriculture Bills.

EXCLUSIVE! Protecting  the rights of small farmers, the Right to Food of all citizens

Creating a Food Sovereign, Food Self Reliant India (Atma nirbhar Bharat)

No Hitler-shahi in India: Rights organisations protest in Delhi

Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.

Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite

1,500 to 2,000 farmers protested on the streets of Bengaluru against the three agriculture Bills introduced by the government.

The end of Parliament Democracy: Farmers’ Unions decry passage of Agri Bills in RS

As protests continue against the anti-farmer Bills, the impunity with which the Upper House of the Parliament passed three key bills dubbed 'anti-farmer', is truly shocking.

Agricultural Bills passed sans votes! Nation-wide, farmers rise in anger, Oppn United

Throwing all pretence of parliamentary rules and decorum to the wind, the Centre decided to pass agricultural Bills without the required votes in the Rajya Sabha.

Amendments to agricultural laws, dangerous for farmers: National Unions

SabrangIndia delves deeper into the three agricultural Bills and the complaints held against these policies.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s resignation, a public warning from Punjab farmers?

Badal resigned as minister of food processing industries, to protest of Modi- government’s ‘anti-farmer’ liberalisation of the agricultural market. Will othes follow suit? 

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