An ASHA Skillshare Course on Tools for Advocacy to Secure Farmers’ Rights & To Improve Farm Livelihoods December 19-20, 2019: Bengaluru How do we understand advocacy? Is it only vis-a-vis the State, or is it about influencing market forces and society too? What are the ways by which some citizen rights were secured by people’s [...]

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New Delhi, November 4th 2019: At a time when the Indian economy is in the doldrums, India should not move forward on the RCEP at any cost, warned farm rights advocacy group Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). “The development in Thailand today, where other countries decided to go ahead while India did not get on [...]

———- Forwarded message ——— From: Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:51 AM Subject: ASHA’s Feedback on FSSAI’s draft guidelines on “Working with the Private Sector” To: <ed-office@fssai.gov.in> Cc: <ceo@fssai.gov.in>, <chairperson@fssai.gov.in>, <secyhfw@nic.in>, <hfwminister@gov.in> To:                                                                                                 25th October 2019 The Executive Director (Compliance Strategy) Food Safety & Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration [...]

NOTE: THIS LETTER WAS SENT BY ASHA TO GOI BEFORE SEEDS BILL 2019 WAS PUT OUT ON 28/10/2019 BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR PUBLIC FEEDBACK. ASHA WOULD RESPOND TO THE SEEDS BILL 2019 VERSION TOO. —– Forwarded message —– From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in>; kotharin@nic.in <kotharin@nic.in> Cc: secy-agri@gov.in <secy-agri@gov.in>; secy-agri@nic.in <secy-agri@nic.in>; jsseeds-agri@nic.in <jsseeds-agri@nic.in>; ashwani.hub@nic.in <ashwani.hub@nic.in> Sent: Sunday, 6 [...]

ASHA’S RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE HIGH POWERED COMMITTEE OF CHIEF MINISTERS ON TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE Submitted: September 4, 2019        PDF Link   Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (also known as ASHA-Kisan Swaraj Network) is a large national network of organisations and individuals, working to promote sustainable and dignified farm livelihoods in India. [...]

—– Forwarded message —– From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: cibsecy@nic.in <cibsecy@nic.in> Cc: vivek.narayan14@nic.in <vivek.narayan14@nic.in>; viveknarayan77@gmail.com <viveknarayan77@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 10:00:37 GMT+5:30 Subject: COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABELLING OF PESTICIDES AS PER TOXICITY COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABELLING OF PESTICIDES AS PER TOXICITY To: The Secretary, Central Insecticides Board, Directorate of [...]

Organic Farming, Natural Farming and other approaches to agro-ecology Welcome;  Agro-ecological principles at work are the same in various models; Diversity of approaches/practices/techniques essential to suit local conditions; Transgenics and other gene technologies patently antithetical to agro-ecology;  Agro-Ecology is based on nature’s principles and is beyond personalities; Adivasi agriculture has long pioneered natural farming and [...]

From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: am@krishi.nic.in <am@krishi.nic.in>; ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in>; kotharin@nic.in <kotharin@nic.in> Cc: neeraja.adidam@nic.in <neeraja.adidam@nic.in>; alka.b87@gov.in <alka.b87@gov.in> Sent: Monday, 29 July 2019, 12:33:22 GMT+5:30 Subject: Reg. the need to establish a set and clear definition of NATURAL FARMING To:                                                                                                                                          July 29th 2019   Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Government of India.   Dear Sir, Sub: On the need for having a set and clear definition [...]

MAJOR FARMER UNIONS OF INDIA RESOLVE COLLECTIVELY TO UPHOLD FARMERS’ SEED RIGHTS   New Delhi, July 13th 2019: Farmers’ movements have decided to put up a collective fight to ensure that farmers’ seed freedoms in India are not violated in any way, in a People’s Conference held here today. Organised by Alliance for Sustainable & [...]