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For the past years, our team has been busy advocating for the rights of farmers along the Yamuna, as part of Housing Rights Task Force and along with the partners we work with. You can refer to the technical report prepared as part of the Main Bhi Dilli campaign in our Open Source section here. The farming communities, depsite being important contributors to food production in the city, have been facing constant evictions over the past years as parks and biodiversity zones are planned in their place as per the Yamuna Riverfront Development Plan. 

We came up with a collective visualisation with the farmers to re-imagine what Delhi's future riverfront could look like where farms are not removed but integrated with public spaces, while also providing food to the city and helping clean the polluted river. What will Delhi 2041 look like? Can we come up with an inclusive vision?

Relevant articles by our team (more in Publications):

• Scroll: By including farmers in Yamuna Riverfront Plan, Delhi can ensure sustainability-and-social-justice

• Stirworld: Who does the land belong to?

• Pioneer: Bridging the gap between Yamuna and Delhi

• Ecovoice: Rethinking urban farming in Delhi: Lessons from the lockdown

Others:

• Asia Democracy Chronicles: When rivefront development sounds deathknell for farmers

• The Wire: Fishing in the shadow of a megacity: Delhi and its 'unseen' fisherfolks