This page has downloadable documents on ASHA’s response/feedback on various external developments in the recent past (policy/legislative etc.).
ASHA’s position on FDI in Retail.
ASHA’s feedback on the Draft National Food Security Bill (draft NFSB 2011).
Amendments that ASHA seeks on the Seeds Bill 2004, with the amendments moved by the Union Agriculture Minister in 2010.
ASHA’s briefing paper on Hybrid Rice.
ASHA’s note on Golden Rice (being developed in Bihar with RKVY funds).
ASHA’s discussion note on Labour Issues in Agriculture & the Way Forward.
(This is a discussion note. The immediate context for the above note is set by recent developments which we believe need our collective engagement and response: the strong concerns about labour shortage in agriculture and the dwindling net incomes from farming, the demands to link agriculture and NREGS, the changing agrarian relationships at the village level, the push towards mechanization and corporatization of agriculture for which labour shortage is now being used as one of the justifications, and the promotion of ecologically unsustainable methods like weedicides, herbicide-tolerant GM crops, ‘machine-friendly’ cropping patterns. We know that this is tricky ground and some of the ideas might get a negative response or considered too sketchy; we see this as a basis to start a discussion in which some of the ideas might get strengthened/modified/ discarded while new ones might be added. Any response from you can be mailed to Kiran Vissa at kiranvissa@gmail.com).
