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There are various adjectives that people use to describe Philippine agriculture these days, but “healthy” is not one of them. Most often, the adjective is “neglected.” Sometimes, “stagnant.” But perhaps the most accurate is “dying.”
Duterte’s Insight
At the start of his victory speech in Davao on June (...)
‘Even lockdowns did not stop killings and militarisation in the countryside.’
Last year had already been unkind to Renato Gameng, a farm worker in the Philippines’ northern Isabela province. The coronavirus brought periodic lockdowns, leaving farmers stranded from their crops. A controversial (...)
The President kicks off his anti-communist roadshow that will take him around the country with a promise in Cagayan de Oro to give out to the poor all idle government land
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, March 5, ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to start working to give (...)
Nearly 300 farmers, indigenous people and land rights activists have been killed since Duterte took office in 2016 In 19 countries surveyed by Global Witness, mining was linked to 43 deaths
More than three people were murdered each week last year while protecting their land from encroaching (...)
Cristopher Villete was an active member of the peasant group Samahang Nagkakaisang Magsasaka ng Barangay Sumalo (SANAMABASU) has led the struggle for land rights in a 214 hectare property claimed by the Riverforest Development Corporation, a property developer owned by the Litton Family. (...)
Candidate Rodrigo Roa Duterte promised a break from the past, by prioritizing the rural sector, focusing on smallholder agriculture, providing free irrigation to farmers, and addressing long-standing issues of agrarian and land reform. He criticized the 29-year old Comprehensive Agrarian Reform (...)
Solidarity Statement from Focus on the Global South for the Filipino Farmers Who Marched for Land, Food and Justice
AT SARIAYA, QUEZON. The March of the Farmers was launched at the municipality of Sariaya, Quezon. Walden Bello, known legislator and agrarian reform and rural development (...)
Suffering the brunt of the ongoing El Nino, more than 6 thousand farmers converged along a national highway in Kidapawan in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on March 30 to demand 15,000 sacks of rice and financial subsidy promised to them six months earlier by the provincial (...)
Women farmers from Upi, Maguindanao joins the Earth Day mobilization in Cotabato in April 22, 2015. With the long drought, they are now among the many farmers who are suffering from hunger in their communities.
The Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement vehemently condemns the grave abuse of power by (...)
Group asks UN Special Rapporteur to query Negros labor activist killings
Press Release
December 10, 2014 On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Partido Manggagawa asked UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Michel Forst to inquire on the killings (...)
Rolando Pango, a full time organizer with the Partido Manggagawa (PM) was gunned down in Binalbagan town in Negros Occidental on November 29, 2014. Prior to his assassination Pango was organizing sugar plantation workers on Hacienda Salud, which is leased and operated by Manuel Lamata, (...)
Labor group calls for release of detained Cebu union leader
Press Release November 25, 2014
The militant Partido Manggagawa (PM) today called for the release of the detained union president of Copper Corp. in Toledo City, Cebu as his petition for bail is heard today. Tony Cuizon, president of (...)
MANILA, Nov 26 2014 (IPS) - Jon Sarmiento, a farmer in the Cavite province in southern Manila, plants a variety of fruits and vegetables, but his main crop, rice, is under threat. He claims that approval by the Philippine government of the genetically modified ‘golden rice’ that is fortified with (...)
Please join this signature campaign, you can send your organizational support/signature to Meanne Manahan via mbmanahan focusweb.org. We grieve with the family of Menelao (Ka Melon) Barcia, as we join the entire rural social movement in mourning the tragic and senseless killing of a peasant (...)
Attacks on indigenous people over resources become more blatant in Philippines.
More than 30 years after soldiers under the Marcos regime killed Macli-ing Dulag because he led the Cordillera communities’ resistance against construction of dams in the Chico River, the attacks on indigenous (...)
It was five (5) in the afternoon of June 19, 2012 when Venecia “Inday” Natingga was murdered along the highway of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte while she was going home and riding in a single motor cycle from the Poblacion. She sustained seven (7) gun shots. Identified suspects are said to be hired (...)
On 10 November 2011, indigenous peoples and farmers led by people’s organizations such as ALDAW (Ancestral Domain/Land Watch) gathered in Brooke’s Point city proper to protest against the mining plans of the Jinchuan Group Ltd. . The company has signed a memorandum of agreement with MacroAsia (...)
Since January 2010, global institutions like the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have been pushing for Principles for Responsible Agricultural (...)
After decades of chemicals, farmers in the Philippines are seeing the benefits of organic farming. But what convinced them to make the switch in the first place?
We spend an afternoon with Gil and Teresa, who have farmed one and a quarter hectares of non-irrigated land in the southern (...)
The successful initiatives of farmers to take back control of their lives and gain food security are empowering communities in the Philippines and around the world.
Our search for rootedness has brought us back to the Philippines, back to communities in the south where Robin spent a year over (...)
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