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XIII Annual Mobile Biodiversity Festival to be Flagged Off
In 2012, our Thirteenth Biodiversity Festival celebrations will be flagged off on 14th January from Rechintal Village and will culminate on 13 February, 2012 at DDS's Green School, Machnoor.
EASTERN INDIA CONVENTION ON MILLETS
We the farmers cultivating millets in various parts of Eastern India - from the predominantly adivasi areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Adisha have met at Bhubaneshwar in Odisha on December 14 & 15 to discuss the millet landscape, the challenges facing them and the probable solutions for these challenges.
DHARWAD DECLARATION ON MILLETS
We the farmers cultivating millets in various parts of Inida - from the hills of Himachal Pradesh, to the plains of Deccan, from the adivasi regions of Madhya Pradesh to the mouuntains fo Nagaland have met at Dharwad in Karnataka on October 16th & 17th to discuss the various facets, strengths and problems of millet cultivation and consumption in India. DDS Community Media Trust Receives International Acclaim
We are delighted to inform that the Community Media Trust of the Deccan Development Society which is as all women rural community media organisation mainly composed of non literate dalit rural women, has received a Certificate of Commendation for the "outstanding work beyond the call of duty"....... PRESS RELEASE
Southern Action on Genetic Engineering [SAGE] strongly condemns the latest anti democratic and conspiratorial ways of biotech companies who have demanded and almost succeeded in calling back the earlier decision of the GEAC [Genetic Engineering Approval Committee] of India to make it mandatory to obtain State Governments approval for any GM trial in a given state. Click for Sage Letter to Ms Jayanthi Natarajan Letter to Chief Minister
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Church Times, London May 13, 2011 Sisters are doing it for themselves - East Angilian Daily Times, May 14, 2011 Sisters are doing it for themselves - The Docklands News, May 18, 2011 Press Release Yesterday, AP along with thousands of cities all over the world celebrated International Year of Biodiversity with great enthusiasm. In AP the AP State Biodiversity Board [APSBB] has come to existence almost five yesars ago. But it does not have much to claim for itself as achievement. Having been set up under forest department it is singularly focussed on a Forestry Worldview of biodiversity to the exclusion of all other social and ecological dimensions of biodiversity...... Memorandum to the Chief Minister WE DON'T WANT GMOs
"Today the world observes Joint International GMO Opposition Day observed all over the world by farmers, environmentalists, civil society groups, concerned scientists, doctors and women's groups. This day signifies the way world is waking up to the threat of the Genetic Engineering industry and fighting the new colonialism that it is seeking to impose on the world....... Dichotomy Between Rights-based and Market-based Development:
Presentation by P V Satheesh, Director, Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India at the IIED, HIVOS, SIDA, SIANI ONE WORLD and SWEDISH COOPERATIVE CENTRE Seminar on RIGHTS-BASED VERSUS MARKET BASED DEVELOPMENT: A FALSE DICHOTOMY FOR SMALL FARMERS? Stockholm, March 3, 2011 Click for Video Presentation.... -->Organic Products for Sale The following organic products are available for sale at DDS Sangam Shop at Zaheerabad. The produce is from the fields and farms of the members of the DDS women sanghams all of who are invariably ecological farmers.
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PRESS RELEASE
A two day Afro Asian Conclave called Bt Cotton & Beyond, Status and Implications of GE crops and Post GE technologies for small farmers in Africa and Asia which met at the NIRD, has called for a renewed Asian African Solidarity where if at all Technology and Ideology has to cross borders they have to be of the people, for the people and by the people.
MINI's Deep Concern About The Millet Network of India [MINI] has expressed its deep concern about the non inclusion of the local procurement provision in the latest version of the National Food Security Bill. In a letter addressed to Ms Sonia Gandhi, UPA Chairperson and the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, which was released to the Press, MINI, a network of over 140 groups of farmers, food activists, scientists and consumers, has demanded an immediate reinclusion of the Local Procurement Clause in the Draft Bill. Vote for Millets in Food Security Bill As Indian Nation is on the threshold of passing a landmark legislation in the form of the National Food Security Bill, we wish to draw your attention to some of hte key provisions of the Bill that need your urgent and vigorous attention. The BRAI BILL 2011 What is the Bill Really About? Click for more details in English Click for more details in Telugu....... PRESS RELEASE Millet Farmers from 10 different states of India have demanded that Indian Government accord millets the status of Food Sovereignty crops that offer independence and dignity to the small and marginal farmers, adivasis, dalits and women in this country. Click for Press Release....... COMMUNITY CONQUERS HUNGER
Community Conquers Hunger is the story of a community or rural poor dalit women from the margins of society, who with a quiet confidence went about banishing hunger fromt heir midst in a span of two decades. Click for Press Release....... Rural Journalists
Women in India's villages have stories to tell. Now they are bent on telling it themselves Citizens Question UID Number / Aadhaar Initiative
Click for Press Release....... Click for Hyderabad Declaration - English Click for Hyderabad Declaration - Telugu TRACKING
SAGE Response to 'ABLE' Demand We have read with great concern the recent demand made this week by ABLE [Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises] for a special meeting of the GEAC for a speedy approval for trials of GE crops. We urge you to initiate a very wide national debate before acceding to any such demand from the industry aimed at fast tracking their profits. WOMEN ARE SOWING THE SEEDS
Women have achieved simply by being given - Eastern Daily Press, May 16, 2011 GREED REVOLUTION? Even if we believe that the first Green revolution benefited India by making it a food-surplus nation, it is important to distinguish it from the second Green revolution that unabashedly ties the nation's agricultural interests to the vagaries of institutional and corporate market forces. ...... India's Poorest Women are Growing a Quiet Revolution Seeds of Hope BIG business agriculture promoted by Western corporations is to blame for up to a quarter of a million farmers committing suicide over the last 10 years, according to community leaders in India. Poor farmers are forced to take out big loans to buy expensive pesticides and fertilizers, and to dxig wells for the increasing amounts of water thedy need. But when their crops fall, or their wells dry up, they fall into debt - and many throusands kill themselves out of desperation...... IT'S THE LITTLE RED ENVELOPE THAT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE I travelled to India to see for myself the projects that receive your donations. I visited women's cooperative farming projects to see how every penny counts. In rural areas, more and more people are turning to organic farming. Farmers are returninng to traditional methods. But this requires education, and funding. DDS, a small charity in the Andhra Pradesh region of Southern India, which provides micro-loans and education...... --> --> |
