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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Erasing lines & providing solutions -Naresh Kumar

Erasing lines & providing solutions -Naresh Kumar

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published Published on Jul 18, 2014   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2014
-The New Indian Express


HYDERABAD: Food Sovereignty Alliance (FSA) has been in existence across 13 districts in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since 2013. It brings onto a common platform - Adivasi, Dalit, Pastoralist and Peasant social movements along with co-producers, to build solidarity with one another for a common vision of food sovereignty and they screened Breeding Invasions at Lamakaan on Sunday evening followed by an open forum.

This film produced by Anthra, a non-profit organisation that works with small and marginal farmers, adivasis and pastoralists, landless groups, while focussing majorly on women of these communities. Directed by C. Vanaja and Vipul Kulkarni, it explores the intricate connections between land, people, animals, food and takes an incisive look at the policies that are dismantling these organic linkages, resulting in an artificial separation of livestock and agriculture.

The film, through conversations with livestock rearers, farmers and scientists exposes this unfolding tragedy, of dwindling livestock, destroyed livelihoods, acute indebtedness, polluted environments and unsafe food increasingly being produced by energy intensive monoculture industrial farming systems, which threaten sovereignty over our land, food and animals.

With the coming of titles on the screen, were also many questions waiting to be answered, raised by a niche audience of around 70 people.

Krupa Raghunathan, one of the organisers at the venue elaborated on 52-minute film made in 2009 but relevant even as of today, considering that the same set of issues continue to plague Indian society. With the presence of members drawn from the FSA's collective comprising farmers and shepherds from Medak, Chittoor and Adilabad districts, the audience got their answers to specific questions on livelihood issues.

Many posers were also about the quality of meat and food item supplies consumed from the open market and and the places they are sourced from.

Krupa also pointed out to the recent National Statistics Office (NSO) reports, meat production in the country has actually come down, but meat consumption is on the rise, giving way to speculation about the quality of supply.

Organic food, that has is becoming popular with more people beginning to make a shift in their lifestyle, too does not benefit the producer, as the farmers sell vegetables at one-fourth the price at which it is available at a departmental store.

To counter this and bring profit to farmers, FSA is planning to connect these smaller producer groups which are called sanghams to the market directly, hence enabling them to actualise the profit margin better, from the consumers and the co-producers directly.

"If vegetable production matches the demand of consumers who assume the role of co-producers in this case, it is a win-win for both' Krupa asserts.


The New Indian Express, 17 July, 2014, http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2014/07/17/Erasing-lines--providing-solutions/article2333814.ece


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