Farmers Wisdom Deserves Recognition – Bharat Dogra
In the course of their work, farmers keep trying to make various improvements and some of them can be very creative in this. What farmers inherit and learn is in…
Read MoreLessons from Indonesia
In Indonesia, which is compose d of five big islands, the land part of the country is only 22.98%. There are 20 million landless people. There were 7,491 land dispute…
Read MoreLessons from Nepal
For 104 years we had the Rana regime in Nepal. They were Prime Ministers by birth. This was a very feudal society. Land was distributed free of cost – not…
Read More“Sem-Terrinha”: Brazilian landless workers’ movement, children and food sovereignty
Founded 34 years ago, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is organized around three main objectives: Struggles for land, agrarian reform and for socialism. We are organized on several fronts; namely…
Read MoreChildren and fishing, in Katosi community
“Though Katosi landing site in Mukono district central Uganda has grown into a commercial landing site handling fish for export, the volume of activities at the landing site has declined…
Read MoreTowards a Nonviolent Economy: For a sustainable and interdependent economy
We all know the structural violence of « growth economy », at all local, national and global levels. Our environment has been disastrously damaged enlightening the new function of GDP…
Read MoreLessons from Colombia
I do not seek a kingdom, Nor do I want heaven I can do without rebirth Just let me work with the poor and the downtrodden in this lifetime. (Sanskrit…
Read MoreLessons from Senegal – Part.1
Recently a group of us from India made a trip to Senegal, in Francophone West Africa and we made a lot of observations about the society that we thought useful…
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