Full Coverage: Agriculture

29.06.2007 Dozens of villages have been flooded; houses, fields and trees have disappeared under water and people have became landless, since the government of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh closed the gates of the Omkareshwar dam in the Narmada valley. Support the demands of the people in the Narmada Valley by sending the letter to the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for adequate compensation and rehabilitation for the people.

28.06.2007 The Strengthening Rural Credit Cooperatives Project of the World Bank supports the Indian Government programme to reform and revitalise the country's rural Credit Cooperative Banks (CCBs) by making them efficient and commercially-viable institutions that also are responsive to the financial needs of the Indian farmers.

28.06.2007 Writing about her childhood in the Salinas Valley, Rose Castillo Guilbault describes the migrants, the men who came alone, the families, and one "special friend."

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1 million children in West Africa would not go to bed hungry if Washington stopped providing subsidies to America's cotton growers, according to a study released Thursday by an influential development organization.

24.06.2007 An all-India symposium on agriculture crises and the Farmers’ Commission will be held at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur on 26th June 2007. It will be partnered by Oxfam International’s South Asia Trade and Agriculture Campaign.

12.06.2007 FSPI report the case of violence and shooting against the peasants in Tanak Awu, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara to the UN Commission of Human Rights in Jakarta. This time, the case is reported to the special delegation of UN Secretary Hina Jilani.

07.06.2007 The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has estimated that over 100 million boys and girls, between the ages of 5-14, work under hazardous conditions in the agriculture sector worldwide. ILO is collaborating with five organisations to eliminate child labour by focusing on World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, 2007.

07.06.2007 LOS ANGELES, Jun 6 (OneWorld) - The Coca-Cola company has been charged with illegally seizing lands communally owned by small farmers and indiscriminately dumping sludge and other industrial hazardous waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as the multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to protect rivers on four continents.

05.06.2007 A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), released on the eve of World Environment Day at Tromso, Norway claims that melting ice and glaciers will affect millions of hundreds of people, impacting water availability for drinking and agriculture.