Agrarian Distress

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 (...)