Peasants Rise Up (Pakistan): Milking us dry: Pakistan’s dairy sector in crisis

PAN Asia Pacific’s No Land, No Life! Campaign, together with the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), has launched the Peasants Rise Up broadcast series. The series, hosted by Bobby Ramakant of Citizen News Service and Christina Sayson, tackles landlessness, corporate control of agriculture, human rights, and other issues currently faced by the peasantry across Asia. The Peasant Rise Up series is part of the Global People’s Summit for a Just, Equitable, Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems. It celebrates the success stories of the peasant movement and highlights the call for land to the tillers as necessary for a truly radical food systems transformation.

In recent years, corporations have been steadily advancing their control over Pakistan’s livestock and dairy sector. While multinational companies like Nestle and Engro hold the monopoly in packaged milk products, their biggest competitors are in the informal retail market of fresh milk. A new law now threatens to the informal milk sector, which is largely in the hands of small and landless farmers and milk vendors.

This episode looks into how big corporations are trying to further control the food system in Pakistan. With guests from Roots For Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT).