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As always, given the inequities built into the global economic system, the poorest people in the world have been the…
As the global leaders prepare to strike a new deal to fight climate change during the Conference of Parties 21 (CoP21)meeting at Paris, villagers from drought-affected districts of Nuapada and Bargarh organised a “March to the Crop Field” asking the world leaders to make a definitive climate deal that reduces global warming and greenhouse gases and support small and marginal farmers in adapting to negative impacts of climate change.
The march was organised at two places Kharamal village in Bargarh district and Kushmal in Nuappada district, where about 300 villagers, including women and children, participated to send out their message to save small farmers from vagaries of climate change by signing a strong climate deal in Paris.
The villagers want the governments to support local agro-ecology-based farming projects and programmes. Governments should support decentralized water harvesting and management systems and put an end to corporate control of the farm sector, including “their control of our seeds”.
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The governments should promote organic farming and ensure local farm based enterprises owned and operated by small and marginal farmers with all kind of support provided to them, said the farmers.
Remunerative price for produce, insurance of crops, assured irrigation, coal storage facilities etc were some of the other demands voiced by them.
The farmers march was organised by Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) and Mahanadi River Water keeper along with Vikash, Khariar CANSA and Action 2015 India as part of a global mobilization day on Sunday.
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