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Women's Day Honours DDS
March 8, 2013

Medak District, A.P, India

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........

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Ringing Closure to the Mobile Biodiversity Festival
February 13, 2013

Medak District, A.P, India

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.......

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RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
P V Satheesh, DDS
In an Interview at CBD COP11


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...

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DDS, MINI & SAGE
Highlighting Agri-biodiversity at COP 11

October 9-15, 2012

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.....

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Multi City Release of the Report to the Media
Bt Cotton and Beyond:
An Afro Asian Conclave on Genetic Engineering

On the occasion of
International GM Opposition Day
April 9, 2012

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.......

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BT COTTON AND BEYOND
Status & Implications of GE crops and post GE technologies for small and marginal farmers in Africa & Asia

An Afro Asian Conclave

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Dichotomy Between Rights-based and Market-based Development:
What is Real and What is False?

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

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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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