Last March 29, farmers, peasants, indigenous peoples, and rights advocates in Asia gathered for this year’s global action of the #DayoftheLandless, organized by Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), to remember and highlight people’s struggles against exploitation, displacement, and neoliberal policies.
“[There are] hardly any genuine farmer development and agrarian reform happened on a massive scale. In fact, quite the opposite is happening. Rural people are still largely landless, displaced, living in poverty, and marginalized from access to basic goods and services while profits double and triple for companies to which all the world’s resources are continually concentrating. The Global South’s governments are also largely complicit in this dispossession campaign against the poor,” Cathy Estavillo, APC Secretary General, said during the speak out.
Farmers also speak out about the effects of imperialism on their daily lives, emphasizing how communities continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing imperialist war in the Middle East, led by the United States and Israel. Ali Gul, a farmer and member of the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek, shared how small-scale farmers in Pakistan are struggling under the weight of this crisis. “Today, as global tensions intensify, we are seeing their effects more clearly than ever. The US and Israeli war imposed on Iran is driving up fuel and fertilizer prices, disrupting supply systems, and pushing small farmers in Pakistan further into debt and food insecurity,” Gul said.
The participants highlight the significance of the ongoing people’s resistance against imperialist interests to territories and people’s resources. In this post, see how rural communities fight for genuine agrarian reform and defend their land and rights through people-led solutions and movements and how the fight for all human rights – indigenous peoples’, migrant workers’, women’s, and farmers’ – are all linked in the fight for land.
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