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Agrarian Distress

A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania

10 February 2024 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN

Tanzania was one of the most heavily targeted countries of a huge scramble for farmland around the world that followed the food and financial crises of 2008 and that was supposed to help solve global food insecurity. The large farm projects, (...)
The Avocados of Wrath

8 May 2023 - by GRAIN

“This little orchard will be part of a great holding next year, for the debt will have choked the owner. This vineyard will belong to the bank. Only the great owners can survive, for they own the canneries too... Men who have created new fruits (...)
Indian farmers script a victory

8 December 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar

Millions of Indians were greeted by pleasant news on 19 November as Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, announced his government’s intention to repeal the three contentious Farm Bills which were intended to ‘fix’ the country’s ailing (...)
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?

16 October 2021 - by Tanmoy Ibrahim

A massive wave of farmers’ protest movements against the anti-farmer agriculture bills and amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, has stunned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as it couldn’t believe that a mass (...)
Farmers mobilisation in the backdrop of an agrarian crisis

21 May 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar

The agricultural laws proposed in 2020 by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government - the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and (...)
India: Long march to peasant unity

4 January 2021 - by Ranjini Basu

The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws. The (...)
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations

21 September 2020 - by WRM

Help stop the advance of monoculture tree plantations in the global South, especially in African countries! Sign this letter to alert people in the global North! Stop development agencies from promoting expansion of large-scale tree (...)
How Is The Agrarian Distress In Maharashtra Affecting Women

23 December 2019 - by Manjima Misra

The plight of farm widows remains underreported due to lack of data, dearth of special focus on the gendered dimension of agrarian distress, policy paralysis and apathy of government. Women from suicide affected agricultural households suffer on (...)