{"id":8594,"date":"2024-10-08T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/?post_type=events&#038;p=8594"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:33:12","slug":"farmers-suicide-in-india","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/farmers-suicide-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Every thirty minutes \u2026 Farmers\u2019 suicide in Maharashtra (India)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#TuesdaySpotlight by <a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/frederic-vandenberghe-2\/\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vandenberghe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who killed our farmers? &#8211; Since 1995, on average, 15.000 farmers per year have killed themselves in the villages of India. This is the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history. At this rate, the toll of half a million deaths by suicide shall be reached soon. If you line up their bodies, they largely cover the whole surface of the Indian territory, from the backwaters of Kerala to the heights of the Himalaya. Since then, every half hour, a farmer succumbs to death by despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his talk at his #TuesdaySpotlight Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vandenberghe will report from his ethnography in Vidarbha (Maharashtra), the cotton belt of India, and reflect on the agrarian transition in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Pattern-Image-Credits Accordion Accordion--accordionList Accordion--imageCredits has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Accordion__list is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__item has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f36ac205 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading Accordion__title has-xlarge-font-size\">Image Information<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tirzada, 2024, \u00a9 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vandenberghe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8630,"template":"","event_type":[103],"class_list":["post-8594","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-tuesday-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}