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

03
Aug

ASHA, Civil society representatives & Scientists write to Business Standard on advertorial by pesticide industry NGO on 29/7/2020

Date 3rd August, 2020   To Mr. T. N. Ninan, Chairperson, Board of Directors, Business Standard Pvt. Ltd. tn.ninan@bsmail.in   Mr.ShaileshDobhal, Editorial Lead, Business Standard Pvt. Ltd. shailesh.dobhal@bsmail.in   Re: The disgraceful advertorial published in the Business Standard on 29/7/2020    We strongly condemn the disgraceful and slanderous full-page advertorial published...
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24
Jul

ASHA’s Comments on Draft EIA 2020 Notification

———- Forwarded message ——— From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 08:44 Subject: ASHA Comments on S.O.1199(E) draft EIA Notification, 2020 To: <eia2020-moefcc@gov.in>, <secy-moef@nic.in> Cc: Karthik Gunasekar <gkarthik.gunasekar@gmail.com>, Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitakuruganti@gmail.com> To,                             ...
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14
Jul

Livestreaming Links for Webinar (Part 2) on “Why Government’s Proposal to Ban 27 Pesticides is Welcome”

Livestreaming of Part 2 of Webinar on  “Why Government’s Proposal to Ban 27 Pesticides is a Welcome Development” July 14th 2020, 4pm ASHA facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AshaKisanSwaraj/ India For Safe Food facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/India4safefood/ Rythu Swarajya Vedika facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RythuSwarajyaVedika/ ASHA youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1brV9gwjFej73Ym0gVttLg ASHA twitter: https://twitter.com/ASHAKisanSwaraj   Speakers and topics...
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