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Keir Starmer disowns top Blair adviser over ‘we don’t need small farmers’ rant
1 month, 1 week ago

Keir Starmer disowns top Blair adviser over ‘we don’t need small farmers’ rant

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Keir Starmer has distanced himself from comments made by a …

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Fury as Tony Blair's ex-adviser claims Labour can 'do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to miners' and says Britain 'doesn't need small farms'
1 month, 1 week ago

Fury as Tony Blair's ex-adviser claims Labour can 'do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to miners' and says Britain 'doesn't need small farms'

Daily Mail  

A senior Labour figure has sparked outrage by claiming Britain 'doesn't need small farmers' and could 'do without' the industry. John McTernan, a former top aide to Tony Blair and a key supporter of Sir Keir Starmer, said the PM could do to farmers 'what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners'. Farming groups and Tory MPs reacted with fury to …

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Telangana Govt exploring options to ensure all genuine small and marginal farmers are benefitted by crop loan waiver
6 months ago

Telangana Govt exploring options to ensure all genuine small and marginal farmers are benefitted by crop loan waiver

The Hindu  

As the deadline for the implementation of crop loan waiver up to ₹2 lakh is approaching fast, Telangana Government is exploring various options to see that all eligible farmers, especially small and marginal farmers with holdings of less than five acres, benefited from the scheme. 40 lakh farmers across Telangana The Government is actively considering the PM Kisan Samman Yojana …

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African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change
7 months, 3 weeks ago

African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change

Associated Press  

HARARE, Zimbabwe — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Climate change is compounding much of sub-Saharan Africa’s longstanding problem of poor soil fertility, said Wonder Ngezimana, an associate professor of crop science at Zimbabwe’s Marondera …

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How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee
8 months, 4 weeks ago

How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

Associated Press  

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him. Farmer Le Van Tam tends coffee plants at a coffee farm in Dak Lak province, Vietnam on Feb. 1, 2024. Farmer Le Van Tam holds up freshly picked coffee beans at a …

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‘Rome’s burning’: Small farmers complain Biden administration is fiddling as they vanish
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Rome’s burning’: Small farmers complain Biden administration is fiddling as they vanish

Politico  

“This administration has done more than any previous administration in terms of trying to provide opportunity,” Vilsack said in an interview, emphasizing the $1 billion-plus in funding his agency has pumped into programs promoting small and medium-sized farms and agribusinesses. “Approximately 92 percent of independent pig farmers are gone and the infrastructure for that type of agriculture is going and …

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INTERVIEW | Vandana Shiva: ‘Millets have become forgotten foods’
1 year, 10 months ago

INTERVIEW | Vandana Shiva: ‘Millets have become forgotten foods’

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:35 IST Scientist, ecologist, author, and farming rights activist Vandana Shiva is known for her trailblazing work in preserving India’s agricultural heritage. Millets were named “primitive” crops and “coarse” grains even though they were more nutritious than the rice and wheat varieties being introduced, used much less water, and could grow on poor and marginal …

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‘The War on Drugs Part II’: California taxes, rules are killing small legal weed farms
1 year, 11 months ago

‘The War on Drugs Part II’: California taxes, rules are killing small legal weed farms

LA Times  

When Johnny Casali was a teenager growing weed illegally in the mountains of Northern California, there was always the risk the government would ruin everything — that his plants would be discovered and ripped up, or that he would be discovered and locked up. Johnny Casali, second from left, and partner Rose Moberly, second from right, talk with inspectors from …

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Using millets grown by small farmers akin to serving country: PM Modi tells BJP MPs
2 years ago

Using millets grown by small farmers akin to serving country: PM Modi tells BJP MPs

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extolled the virtues of millets and sports in improving the health of citizens to BJP MPs on a day when the government also hosted lunch for all Members of Parliament with a menu exclusively comprising dishes made with millets. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi, briefing the media after the meetings, said the Prime …

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Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings
2 years, 3 months ago

Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings

LA Times  

Architects of the effort to legalize pot in California made big promises to voters. We cannot let that happen.” His blue ribbon commission’s report released months later suggested drafters of a legalization initiative consider limiting the number of licenses issued to any one owner “to prevent the growth of a large, corporate marijuana industry dominated by a small number of …

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Despite California groundwater law, aquifers keep dropping in a ‘race to the bottom’
3 years ago

Despite California groundwater law, aquifers keep dropping in a ‘race to the bottom’

LA Times  

Construction on a 1,300-foot-deep well is underway in the Central Valley town of Terra Bella. And that people wouldn’t self-manage how much water they were taking out, knowing the impacts.” Former state Sen. Fran Pavley helped draft the 2014 groundwater law. “I hoped that the time between the enactment and the 2040 date, people would only make progress, that we …

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A white touch to a refreshed green revolution
3 years ago

A white touch to a refreshed green revolution

The Hindu  

November 26, 2021 was celebrated in Anand, Gujarat as the 100th birth anniversary of Verghese Kurien, the leader of India’s ‘white revolution’, which increased the incomes and the wealth of millions of cattle-owning small farmers in India, many of them women. November 26, 2021 also marked one year from the day when thousands of crop-growing farmers, who have been the …

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Farm Laws Rolled Back: RaGa Tweets 'Will be Forced...' Reminder, Protesters at Singhu Border Celebrate
3 years, 1 month ago

Farm Laws Rolled Back: RaGa Tweets 'Will be Forced...' Reminder, Protesters at Singhu Border Celebrate

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi repealed the three controversial farm laws on Friday while addressing the nation on the occasion of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev’s birth anniversary. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that the announcement of repealing the three farm laws is a victory of democracy and “defeat” of the arrogance of the Centre. My deepest condolences to everyone …

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Three farm laws will be repealed, says PM Modi
3 years, 1 month ago

Three farm laws will be repealed, says PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation at 9 a.m. on November 19, to announce that the new farm laws enacted in 2019 will be repealed in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. Here are the live updates: 9:15 am Farm laws to be repealed Prime Minister says "Today, I want to tell you that the three farm laws will …

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Prime Minister Modi addresses the nation on 75th Independence Day, lays out plan for next 25 years of progress
3 years, 4 months ago

Prime Minister Modi addresses the nation on 75th Independence Day, lays out plan for next 25 years of progress

Op India  

PM Modi addressed the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort as India entered 75th year of Independence. Today, that time has come in India’s development journey,” said Prime Minister Modi in his Independence Day speech. It is the government’s priority to take #Poshan to every person, every poor person; Government has decided to provide fortified rice to the …

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PM Modi's I-Day speech: Gati Shakti plan, blueprint for 100 years of Independence | Top announcements
3 years, 4 months ago

PM Modi's I-Day speech: Gati Shakti plan, blueprint for 100 years of Independence | Top announcements

India Today  

From voicing the pain of partition to lauding the nation for showing courage during the Covid-19 pandemic to speaking about development in various sectors of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted various aspects of India while delivering a speech on the occasion of 75th Independence Day on Sunday. "We have to ensure we meet our goal of building Aatmanirbhar …

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Small farmers not given enough attention in earlier policies: PM Modi
3 years, 4 months ago

Small farmers not given enough attention in earlier policies: PM Modi

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said small farmers were not given enough attention in earlier policies, adding that his government aims to increase the collective power of small farmers by providing them with new facilities. Delivering his annual Independence Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort, PM Modi said, "In the earlier policies that were made in the …

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PM Modi calls for 'sabka prayas' for new India, announces Rs 100 lakh crore Gati Shakti plan: Highlights
3 years, 4 months ago

PM Modi calls for 'sabka prayas' for new India, announces Rs 100 lakh crore Gati Shakti plan: Highlights

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon a range of topics -- the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines, Aatmanirbhar Bharat, welfare of small farmers, infrastructural development and India's Olympics performance -- in his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 75th Independence Day. "In the coming days, we will launch the PM Gati Shakti Plan, a Rs 100 …

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Rob Wallace on the political economy of pandemics
3 years, 6 months ago

Rob Wallace on the political economy of pandemics

The Hindu  

Rob Wallace is an evolutionary biologist and a public health phylogeographer based in the United States. Right now, neoliberal capitalism, the world’s dominant paradigm, is organised around rolling back the public commons—for instance, the water treatment that helps control cholera—in favour of limiting governance to propping up corporate productivity. In a kind of bioeconomic warfare, when pathogens spread from industrial …

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A passion for cleaning up: Being green is so sexy says TV star Julia Bradbury
3 years, 6 months ago

A passion for cleaning up: Being green is so sexy says TV star Julia Bradbury

Daily Mail  

TV presenter Julia Bradbury says caring for the environment is sexy – and going on a litter pick is a great way to show your love. She said: ‘For me, it’s all about loving the place you live in, taking pride in your local area.’ Miss Bradbury, a mother-of-three, said she was happy to be supporting the Great British Spring …

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PM Modi Endorses More Avenues for Farmers to Sell Crops; Punjab Assembly Pays Tributes to Dead Protesters
3 years, 9 months ago

PM Modi Endorses More Avenues for Farmers to Sell Crops; Punjab Assembly Pays Tributes to Dead Protesters

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday emphasised on farmers getting more avenues to sell crops and said a food processing revolution was needed in the country for value addition to farm produce and to realise better prices. Without making any direct reference to the three new farm reform laws or to the three-month-old agitation by farmers, Modi said there is …

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A greenhouse in a box for small farmers
3 years, 10 months ago

A greenhouse in a box for small farmers

Live Mint  

With one-tenth the water and pesticides required and a manifold increase in yield, greenhouses can be transformative. Model farm Kheyti had set up an R&D farm on the outskirts of Hyderabad to demonstrate its greenhouse to small farmers. When we explained that for the greenhouse he would run his borewell pump for only five minutes compared to an hour’s running …

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The Big Tech takeover of agriculture is dangerous
3 years, 10 months ago

The Big Tech takeover of agriculture is dangerous

Al Jazeera  

On January 15, Liu Jin, a 45-year-old driver for Alibaba’s food delivery platform in the Chinese city of Taizhou, set himself on fire in protest over unpaid wages. In a new report, our organisation GRAIN looks at how Big Tech is promoting industrial agriculture and contract farming and undermining agroecology and local food systems through its development of digital agriculture …

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Full speech text: Prez Kovind's address to Parliament as Budget session starts
3 years, 10 months ago

Full speech text: Prez Kovind's address to Parliament as Budget session starts

Hindustan Times  

In an hour-long speech covering the country's key concerns, President Ram Nath Kovind initiated India's first Parliament session - Budget session - of the year on Friday. Honourable Members, In order to increase the income of farmers, my Government has also focused on development of livestock as a source of income. Honourable Members, Baba Saheb Ambedkar was not only the …

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