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Women's Day Honours DDS
Deccan Development Society is delighted and proud that two of the women belonging to the Society have been honoured by two distinctive awards on the occasion of International Women’s Day held on March 8, 2013. While Doordarshan honoured Ms Masanagari Chinna Narsamma, community filmmaker in its first Saptagari Sabala Sadhikarata Puraskaram the YSRCP honoured Ms Gangwar Anjamma for her contribution to the issues of biodiverse agriculture, seed conservation and organic farming........ Click for Chinna Narsamma Story
Ringing Closure to the Mobile Biodiversity Festival
The 14th Mobile Biodiversity Festival, organized by the Sangham women of Deccan Development Society, was brought to a close in a vibrant and colourful valedictory ceremony that was organised at Pachasaale, Machnoor Village, Jharasangham Mandal, Andhra Pradesh on February 13, 2013.......
RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
P V Satheesh of Deccan Development Society says the small landholders his organisation works wiht are using biodiversity, irrigation free farming to insulate themselves from the climate crisis. For this reason he believes small farms have a role to play in ensuring food security as climate change impacts take hold He also says small farmers are more productive and efficient than larger land owners, as well as being more sustainable...
DDS, MINI & SAGE As the member of the AP State Biodiversity Board [APSBBB] and of the Agrobiodiversity Group of the National Biodiversity Authority [NBA], the DDS and its two major networks, MINI and SAGE are organising a series of events during the CBD. These events are intended to project issues related to agricultural biodiveresity and the negative impact it suffers because of genetic engineering in food and farming by projecting them and analyzing them in an Afro-Asian plain. This is also an effort forge new coalitions at the Afro Asian level. The details of the events are..... Click for the details of the events
Multi City Release of the Report to the Media
After ten years of its cultivation in India, Bt Cotton has now been described from being a super flop to an economic and ecological disaster....... Click for the Press Release
BT COTTON AND BEYOND
Click for the Report 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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My Best Gift, Ever:
"We don't need to do that anymore. Every family has food security now."
LOCAL CONCERNS, GLOBAL VOICES:
11 year-old Mayuri from poor Dalit
A story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor Dalit family in Andhra Pradesh who has been filming the agricultural practices of her community and has gained international acclaim
Press Release After the great news of the Indian Parliamentary Committee having unanimously rejected GM Crops and asking for the stoppage of field trials, this moratorium call by the Supreme Court appointed Technical Experts Committee [TEC] has come as a shot in the arm of all sane thinking people of India, feels SAGE. The TEC was asked by the highest court of the country to report back to the Court its recommendations on “whether there should or should not be any ban, partial or otherwise upon conducting of field trials of GMOs.”....
Press Release
Bt Cotton is symbolic of the trap that genetically engineered crops are laying around the food sovereignty in Africa and Asia as well as the USA was the overwhelming opinion of speakers at the Press Conference ........ 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? |
