-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 20th December, 2021 The Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement on the issue of giving eggs in Mid day meals. On November 23 2021, in the context of malnutrition, the State Government of Karnataka announced that eggs would be provided three days a week as part of the mid-day meal scheme to students in seven districts. Against this decision,...
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Historic win for farmer seed rights: PepsiCo’s IPR on potato variety revoked -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Judgement against Pepsico potato variety sets precedent for all seed and food and beverages corporations not to transgress farmers’ seed rights and freedoms in India, experts say The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&FR) Authority December 3, 2021 revoked a PVP (plant variety protection) certificate granted to PepsiCo India Holding (PIH) on a potato variety (FL-2027) on multiple grounds. This means that Pepsico’s Intellectual Property Right (IPR) granted...
More »PepsiCo loses rights to special Lays variety potato in India -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu The company’s registration of the variety has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority. Two years after PepsiCo India provoked outrage by suing nine Gujarati farmers for allegedly infringing patent rights by growing its registered potato variety, the company’s registration has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority (PPV&FRA). “This judgement is a historic victory for the farmers of India. It...
More »Right to Food Campaign Secretariat demands for increasing the quota under PDS to include those without ration cards
-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 3rd December, 2021 In its press release dated 3 December, 2021, the Right to Food Campaign welcomes the Central Government's decision to extend Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), and reiterates the demands for increasing quota and universalisation of PDS. Please click here to access the press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 3rd December, 2021. For further information,...
More »Sudha Narayanan, agricultural economist at International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, interviewed by Shoaib Daniyal (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in We must remember that there is no one such thing as ‘Indian agriculture’ whenever we discuss reforms. Multiple models need to be discussed. On Monday, Parliament cleared a bill to repeal the three farm laws that had gripped Indian politics for much of the past year. Passed in September 2020, the laws were meant to allow much greater play of corporate capital in Indian agriculture. However, the laws also sparked fears...
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