Kathmandu. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe and governments rush to contain its spread, often with restrictive lockdown, 119 peasants organizations from 30 countries and 5 regions called for the assertion of the rights and welfare of the rural and all toiling peoples. The organizations made a...more

Kathmandu. Country-level National Consultative Meeting for the 35th Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations was held at Kathmandu. Addressing the meeting, Dr. Yubak Dhwoj GC, secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, said that the forthcoming 35th...more

We, 350 representatives of peasants, landless peasants and agricultural workers, small producers of food and different agricultural commodities & agro-forestry, youth and women peasants, fisher folks, livestock holders and pastoralists, agricultural co-operatives, organic producers, Dalits and Adivasis, agricultural experts, peasants' organizations and coalitions, community-based organizations, civil society organizations,...more

Kathmandu: The three-day international conference on Food Sovereignty and Peasants Rights has concluded in the capital on Monday issuing a 16-point Kathmandu Declaration. The conference organised by the National Farmers' Commission, a government institution established for safeguarding the Peasants' rights, was attended by more than 450 peasants, agricultural experts,...more

An important biological species — humankind — is at risk of disappearing due to the rapid and progressive elimination of its natural habitat. We are becoming aware of this problem when it is almost too late to prevent it. It must be said that consumer societies are chiefly...more