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PRESS RELEASE
South Against Genetic Engineering REJECTS Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill Even while some of the most important legislations such as the Women’s Reservation Bill and the Food Security Bill are crying for an early passage in the Parliament, the Government has shown a surprising hurry, almost bordering on obscenity, to introduce a new Bill called the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India in the current session of Parliament. DEMOCRATISATION OF G E DEBATE
Community Charter on
WE HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL THE PLANET
Hyderabad, December 23 2009: The People’s Coalition on Climate Change led by the Deccan Development Society of Hyderabad today released a Community Charter on Climate Crisis a charter of "hope and assertion". Our Celebration of The Deccan Development Society's village level womens' collectives sanghams have put their faith in the collective strength over the decades. With a strong conviction in reviving of small and marginal lands they brought back the ecological farming practices, suitable to make some of the most marginalised land productive of biodiverse, nutritious, organic and healthy foods and fodder in the harsh drylands of Deccan, Andhra Pradesh. Millets Future of Food and Farming
A Memorandum To Honourable On the eve of the participation of your government in the Meeting of the Agricultural Ministers of India Sky is not the limit P V Satheesh Article in 15th July Hindustan Times As the shadows of drought lengthen across the subcontinent, the faint voices of apocalypse are growing louder by the day. That they emanate mainly from news channels and not from well-informed agricultural scientists or meteorologists is quite interesting. As the comic shots of farmers looking skywards with their palms shading their eyes — popularised by the Films Division of India 60 years ago — start crowding the 24x7 screens, it is apparent that they are smelling a big, dramatic story Hold Back the Initiative on Cooperative Farming As people who have been working with very small and marginal farmers, mainly dalits and women, we are addressing this letter to you in response to your new initiative on "Cooperative Farming." We write this in great alarm and anguish since we seriously believe that this initiative will create extraordinary harm and distress for the small and marginal farmers of the state. Building social economy and sustainable autonomous communities: the case of the DDS In 1983, a group of urban-based professionals from development studies, communication technologies, and social sciences set up the DDS and began working with dalit women, the most marginalized and excluded section of Indian society, in the Zaheerabad mandal (sub-district) of Medak district, with its field station in Pastapur village, and its headquarter in Hyderabad. Radio boost for marginalised women
Born on the fringes of Indian society, she has fought her way up through hard work and guts. Call for agricultural research to serve people and planet, not corporate interests Farmers and food consumers worldwide need a stronger say in how agricultural research is funded, designed, implemented and controlled to ensure that the knowledge produced brings the most social and environmental benefits. DDS Sangham Radio
Launched in Andhra Pradesh, India, on World Rural Women's Day (October 15) 2008, DDS Sangham Radio is a community radio station owned, managed, and operated exclusively by women from rural marginalised communities (the "Dalit" caste). "GENETIC ROULETTE"
To get this publication INDIA - SOUTH AFRICA
FARMERS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
JANUARY 2009
A group of Bt-cotton farmers from Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, arrived in India where they interacted with farmers from South India to learn about ecological agriculture in the face of climate change and environmental concerns. Gendering Agriculture: Putting Women First Having worked for over two decades with small and marginal women farmers from low income dalit families in the Medak District of Andhra Pradesh, the Deccan Development Society has been privileged to acquire a range of exciting perspectives offered by the women on their agriculture. This paper presents some of those perspectives which turns the arguments by the formal agricultural economists and scientists on their head and present a unique vision of food and farming born in and nurtured from the ground. Civil Societies Demand Scrapping of NBRA Proposal National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA), a regulatory body being set up for overseeing policy guidelines & ensuring periodical evaluation of regulatory mechanism. This bill scrapes the basic right of the farmer to sow the crop of his interest & to prepare his own seed, upholding the MNC's Sovereignty on the seed Industry. More than 130 Organisations who represent different sections of people of the society have voiced together & penned a letter to P.M against this single window, fast track clearance system which is unscientific, undemocratic & may leave the department corrupt. Millets are the answer the Indian Farming Crisis PRESS RELEASE Declaring millets as the future of food and farming for India, representatives of farmers, scientists, development academics and civil society activists have called for immediate inclusion of millets in the Public Distribution System of India. They also said that millets can be the only answer to the agrarian, ecological and energy crisis as well as the impending climate change challenges that are haunting Indian farming. STORY ON WOMEN OF ZAHEERABAD TAKE ON MONSANTO WINS LAUREL In a rare feat, Mr Aruna Shrivasta’s story titled - Women of Zaheerabad take on Monsanto won worldwide acclamation in a contest conducted by Project Censored Media Democracy in Action. The story was ranked 8th among the top 25 censored stories in 2008. It is one of the powerful read on issues of survival 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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Eleventh Annual Mobile Biodiversity Festival flagged off
The Eleventh Annual Biodiversity Festival of the Deccan Development Society is inaugurated on January 22, 2010 in Medak District of Andhra Pradesh.
Bt Brinjal is a symbol of death
RAITA TEERPU
Between December 1st and 3rd, thirty of us, farmers and farm labour, women and men, gathered as a jury of farmers at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre near Bengalooru and heard the depositions on agricultural research from a panel of expert witnesses working in various sectors of agricultural research, governance, academia, farmer movements, pastoralism and consumer groups Click for Verdict details : Sangham Radio Own
Sangam Radio, a community radio station, and an initiative of the Deccan Development Society (DDS) won laurels by bagging an award in the Community Broadcasting Category of the Manthan Awards, which recognize best e-content practices in South Asia. DDS has a lot to cheer about, because it has been chosen for the award out of the 360 nominations received from South Asia for 13 different categories. Community Charters
The magic of millet in a drought-prone country Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Augest 16 : At a time when the dreaded spectre of drought is hovering over roughly one-third of the total cultivated area in India, the time is opportune to emphasise the need for cultivating millets. Good food, Indian-style
They are two simple, rural women, living in rural Andhra Pradesh, in an area known for its arid soils, its resultant lack of food and its poverty. And unbelievable as it may seem, the answer to the healthy skins of Chandramma and Narsamma lies in good nutrition. Keya Acharya has more. ENVIRONMENT-INDIA:
ZAHEERABAD, Andhra Pradesh, Mar 17 (IPS) - A collective of 5,000 women spread across 75 villages in this arid, interior part of southern India is now offering a chemical-free, non-irrigated, organic agriculture as one method of combating global warming. SPECIAL AWARD FOR DDS WOMEN Naveena Mahila Contest 2008
DDS women, who have already made a name for themselves with their trail-blazing initiatives, added one more award to their list of laurels when they were honored at the Naveena Mahila Contest 2008, organized annually by TV 9. “Women of Pastapur”
In impoverished villages surrounding Zaheerabad, India, a handful of illiterate Dalit women have taken communication tools into their hands—specifically, video and radio. Their goal: autonomy and self-reliance for their communities. ORGANIC MOBILE MOVES INTO SANGAREDDY & HYDERABAD The ORGANIC MOBILE of the Deccan Development Society the internationally reputed NGO from Zaheerabad will be stationed in the District Offices complex every Monday from 0930 a.m. till 6 p.m. Citizens of Sangareddy can purchase a wide variety of highly nutritious organic products from this Organic mobile. The products brought directly from farmers are grown completely under ecological conditions.
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