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NALSAR DECLARATION
We, farmers, lawyers, , law teachers and law students, ex-bureaucrats, women's groups, civil society representatives, researchers, activists and NGOs came together at the NALSAR Campus, Hyderabad, India for a two-day legal strategy workshop through 17-18 July 2010, to develop our collective understanding of the law and policydimensions of Genetic Engineering (GE) vis-a-vis our food systems, seed sovereignty and farming cultures. During the two-day workshop we deliberated over provisions of the Constitution of India, existing Central laws around GE in agriculture, the emerging regulatory regime and draft Bills....... Click for Declaration in English Click for Declaration in Telugu Sustainable Agriculture, Biotechnology, Rural Development
The theme of Sustainable Agriculture, Biotechnology and Rural Development combines three different strands which together weave an intricate fabric of "development" in the contemporary Indian socio-economic-political scenario. To untangle them in order to understand what they represent "separately and together" is a complex task............ SAGE Feedback on report of the National Fibre Policy Sub-Group
It is with great interest that we have read the report of the sub group on the National Fibre Policy. We are happy that you have extended the deadline for seeking comments to 5th July 2010. We do believe that a full time line of less than one month from the point of time the policy document was opened up for public discussion, is far from adequate in view of the importance and scale of cotton production in India and in the world, as the sub group's document itself mentions. ............ GE in 24 Frames
Click for the brochure PRESS RELEASE
On a day when the entire world celebrates the International Biodiversity Day, Andhra Pradesh will lead India through a cluster of local communities from Medak District who are staking their claim to be India's Agro Biodiversity Heritage Sites [BHS], the firstever such claim anywhere in the country. These communities from the Zaheerabad region of Medak, lead by the Deccan Development Society, will thereby be demanding state recognition of a fantastic biodiversity conservation that they have been engaged in for generations. Click for details English | Telugu PRESS RELEASE
As temperatures rise, land sink below the sea and mountains melt, India's agriculture is set to be most affected by the vagaries of the changing climate. The solutions to adapt to this crisis are internationally emerging in the form of the creation of new improved seed varieties, propriety technology options and also conservation of the world's seed germplasm in deep freeze banks. The locks and keys to these lay far away from the origins of the seed, sourced from farmers in India. Millets Future of Food and Farming
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. 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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National Environment Awareness Campaigns (NEAC) 2010 - 2011 The Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India has invited applications from registered NGOs, Trusts & Institutes of Education & Training and Community Organisations, Professional associations, Scientific Bodies etc., for receiving financial support ranging from Rs. 10000/- to Rs. 30,000/- for the conduct of National Environment Awareness Campaigns (NEAC) 2010-2011.......... MILLETS IN MEDAK &
BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE SITES We the communities of the zaheerabad region from four mandals of Zaheerabad, Jharasangam, Raikode and Nyalkal do on this World Environment Day of June 5, 2010
Whose Media, Whose Freedom? A presentation by P V Satheesh, Director, Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India
PRESS RELEASE "The petition from the Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FABE),addressed to you demanding a reversal of the moratorium on Bt Brinjal is a pernicious piece of advocacy. What it actually requests you is to vote out democracy and vote in corporate control." says P.V. Satheesh, Director, Deccan Development Society in the opening lines of his letter to Shri Sharad Pawar, Union Agriculture Minister. Click to Open Letter to Shri Sharad Pawar
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 : 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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