Mathiben Devkorbhai Sanghani is a farmer from Kuda, Dhrangadhra, Surendranagar, India. From the early age of 16, she has been going to the salt farms to work and help her family earn a living. Her family owned a 50 bigha land of their own but were helpless as the agriculture there was only dependent on […]
This story is written by the editorial staff of the EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2021 As the eldest daughter of a farmer, Ti Chia Pan grew up helping her parents grow bananas and vegetables in the village of Nanphalong, Temu, at the border between Myanmar and India. Her experience in the field gave her first-hand insight […]
Peasants in Thailand have been affected by chronic problems of poverty and hardships production caused by landlessness, land rights violation, grabbing of agrarian resources including land, water, forest, and seeds, increasing prices of production inputs, unstable crop prices, inaccessibility to markets, exploitation by the middlemen, contract farming, debts, inaccessibility of state welfare, unsafe working condition, […]