Farmers are calling for comprehensive rural reform, the protection of water springs, and the suspension of coal mining. On Monday, over 15 social organizations called for an indefinite strike on the main roads of the department of La Guajira due to the lack of responses from the Colombian government to the problems affecting the region. […]

Over the last month, two farmers have committed suicide in protest against PM Modi’s apathy towards the ongoing protests. On Thursday, 55-year-old farmer Resham Singh committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance at a protest site in the northern Indian state of Punjab. He consumed insecticide at the Shambhu border, a point between Punjab and […]

These actions are part of a strike demanding better conditions for farmers and a minimum price for their crops. On Monday, thousands of farmers forced the cancellation of 163 trains and blocked dozens of roads in the state of Punjab, in northwestern India. RELATED: Nicaragua Expresses Condolences on the Passing of Former Prime Minister of […]

Agrarian reforms remain an issue in India, where thousands of farmers camped for nearly 15 months at New Delhi’s borders. On Tuesday, Praveena Srindhar, the director of Science and Technology at the NGO Save Soil, recalled that over 11o,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide due to bank debts and crop failures. RELATED: Turkiye Denied Israeli […]

The National Federation of Agricultural Holders’ Unions recorded 85 demonstrations across the country. On Monday, Farmers took to the streets across France to protest against the trade agreement that the European Union (EU) plans to sign by the end of the year with the South American trade bloc Mercosur. RELATED: Brazil’s President Lula hopes for […]

In communities across Kenya, peasant organizations are mobilizing to defend the right to healthy food and rejected GM crops that advance the country’s food security. In Karura, a region on the northern outskirts of Nairobi, community leaders meet with local peasant communities to explain the implications of GMOs to small farmers, seeds introduced into the […]

For its part, the Association of Colombian Banana Growers, Augura, denounced today that 500,000 boxes of this fruit are at risk of being lost, while 15,000 workers are prevented from reaching their jobs and sales are in danger.

They require that the rights to freedom of thought, opinion and expression be respected.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics indicate that the livestock sector which consists of a population of 150 million livestock contributes 12 percent of the total gross domestic product.

On Thursday, the National Farmers’ Federation (FNC) kicked off its 30th “Farmer, Indigenous, and Popular March” in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, under the motto “For land and production, and against All Injustices.” RELATED:  Paraguayan Firefighters on Alert for Forest Fires Summoned by the FNC, social activists, environmental defenders, and progressive politicians departed from […]