AFA has 2 new interns, this time from Beijing and Hong Kong, China. Liwi Shao, a Statistics major from Hong Kong University, and Fei Jia, a Persian major from Peking University, will work at the secretariat office of AFA for 6 weeks. They will provide support to AFA’s research, documentation, information, and communication work.
Dear fellow land rights advocates in Timor Leste, Our organization, Asian Farmers’ Association or AFA, supports your call for the implementation of the Minimum Requirements to ensure meaningful public participation in developing your country’s Land Law. AFA, a regional alliance of nine national farmers’ organizations in eight Asian countries, believes that security of land tenure […]
(Excerpt from the news report: “We dedicate this victory to Ka Rene Peñas, whose life and struggle will always inspire us,” Hontiveros said. She was referring to the farmer leader of Sumilao, Bukidnon, who was slain on June 6. Peñas was one of the participants in the 1,770-kilometer “walk for land, walk for justice” of […]
Renato Penas (Ka Rene) National Vice-President PAKISAMAJune 6th, 2009 PAKISAMA Statement on the Assassination of Renato Penas, National Vice-President June 6th, 2009 PAKISAMA leader ambushed! (updated) June 6th, 2009 In the News: Sumilao farmer slain June 6th, 2009 In the News: Sumilao peasant leader shot dead in Bukidnon June 7th, 2009 Press Statement on the […]
Reference: Elaine Teope, (PAKISAMA) 09196190466, 4342079, Joey Dimaandal 09179336186 “Panalo na tayo.” (We have won.) Those were the last text message sent by Ka Renato, Penas, Vice President of the Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) to his family, friends, fellow farmer-activists when he heard the news that the House of Representatives has passed […]
PAKISAMA condemns in strongest possible terms the dastardly and cowardly assassination of our leader, Renato Penas (51) last night, around 11 P.M., while on his motorcycle with two companions to his farm in San Vicente, Sumilao, Bukidnon. While his companions survived, the assassins made sure Ka Rene would not. Crawling after the first volley of […]
Renato Penas, Vice-President of PAKISAMA, was ambushed dead by unidentified gunmen at 11:00 PM yesterday, on the way to his farm in Sumilao, Bukidnon. He was 51. His 2 companions are in the hospital nursing gunshot wounds. It was a high price to pay for selflessly dedicating himself to the agrarian reform movement. He is […]
Food security and poverty alleviation is possible, thanks to an agricultural system that puts the interests of the small farmers front and center. This is the positive message of a new book called “Food Security and Farmer Empowerment: A study of the impacts of farmer-led sustainable agriculture in the Philippines” which shows the overwhelming benefits […]
