Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA)

Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture or ASHA-Kisan Swaraj network is a volunteer-driven large informal network of organisations and individuals that initially came together in 2010 to organise a Kisan Swaraj Yatra, a nation-wide mobilisation to draw attention to issues pertaining to our FOOD, FARMERS, FREEDOM. The network’s associates consist of farmers’ organisations, consumer groups, women’s organisations, environmental organisations, individual citizens and experts who are committed to the cause of sustainable and viable farm livelihoods in rural India including by ensuring that productive resources are in the control of farming communities and thereby, safe, nutritious, diverse and adequate food is available for all Indians.

ASHA works with a mission to strengthen sustainable agricultural livelihoods and food diversity/safety/nutrition by re-orienting policies, practices and public consciousness, towards a holistic vision of social, environmental and economic justice as described in the Kisan Swaraj Neeti. It is a network that enables, and draws upon synergies of collective wisdom and action, based on mutual trust and respect.

From the dialogues that emerged during the Kisan Swaraj Yatra and subsequent work, ASHA articulates a 4-pillared Kisan Swaraj Neeti and calls on governments to adopt the same. The four pillars of Kisan Swaraj Neeti are (1) income security for farm households; (2) ecological sustainability of agriculture; (3) people’s control over agricultural resources like land, water and seed; and (4) access to safe, healthy, nutritious and sufficient food for all. The Kisan Swaraj Neeti is conscious of, and sensitive to structural issues of discrimination and marginalisation, and seeks to address those within this policy framework.


Recent posts

04
Oct

ASHA denounces funding by US govt of a dubious PR firm to discredit anti-GM, anti-pesticide activists

ASHA denounces the financial support extended by the US Government to a ex-Monsanto employee’s private social network profiling/tracking anti-pesticide and anti-GMO activists –  “V-Fluence, Stop your disgusting anti-people, anti-Nature work” New Delhi, October 4th 2024: Members of Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) condemned strongly the fact that USDA/American...
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29
Jul

Letter to Union Agri Minister on ICAR’s HT basmati varieties

———- Forwarded message ———From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:35 PMSubject: Reg. Herbicide Tolerant (HT) basmati varieties launched by ICAR-Serious Objections-Reg.To: <agrimin.india@gmail.com>Cc: <mefcc@gov.in> To Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Hon’ble Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India. Email: agrimin.india@gmail.com   July 29, 2024 Dear Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Sub:...
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20
Jul

Citizens’ letter (incl. farmer leaders and agri scientists) to ICAR against multiple recent MoUs with agri-corporations

———- Forwarded message ———From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 9:15 PMSubject: MoUs that ICAR has been signing with various corporations including Bayer, Syngenta and Amazon – reg.To: <dg.icar@nic.in>Cc: <agrimin.india@gmail.com> To:                                       ...
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