The Asian Peasant Coalition
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is an Asia-wide coalition that struggle for the rights of farmers, landless peasants, fisherfolks, agricultural workers, dalit, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, including the women and youth across these sectors.
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PEASANTS RISE UP UPCOMING EPISODE
The Peasants Rise Up broadcast series tackles issues of landlessness, land grabbing, corporate control in agriculture, human rights and other issues currently faced by the peasantry across Asia. It celebrates the steadfast and growing peasant movement and its successes in the recent years. It amplifies the call for genuine agrarian reform and for land to the tillers as indispensable components of a truly radical transformation of the global food systems.
#ICYMI | Watch how the women farmers of Monragala district in Sri Lanka have been struggling to take back their land from the Pelwatte sugarcane company who have degraded and poisoned their lands for many years.
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- Assert And Defend The Rights Of Rural And All Toiling Peoples Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic!
Day of the Landless 2020, Joint statement of 126 global, regional, national and local organizations from 32 countries (updated as of 6th April 2020) We mark the Day of the Landless today with utmost concern as the landless rural peopleContinue reading “Assert And Defend The Rights Of Rural And All Toiling Peoples Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic!” - The necessity and urgency of land reform in time of pandemic and economic crisis
Members of the Asian Peasant Coalition conducted an online webinar entitled “Peasants Rise Up” last May 22, 2020, the first in a series of webinars that the coalition will be hosting. This first episode featured Covid-19 country situations from Pakistan, Philippines, India, Indonesia, and Cambodia. It alsoContinue reading “The necessity and urgency of land reform in time of pandemic and economic crisis” - End corporate control in food and agriculture! Fight for genuine land reform and rural development to truly transform the world’s food systems!
Day of the Landless 2021 statement Today, Day of the Landless, we – farmers and peasants, poor farmhands, agricultural workers, contract farmers, Dalits, indigenous peoples, rural women and youth, and land reform advocates across Asia – vow to further ourContinue reading “End corporate control in food and agriculture! Fight for genuine land reform and rural development to truly transform the world’s food systems!”
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