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 […]
LONDON, England (CNN) — The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a “silent crisis” that is killing 300,000 people each year. More than 300 million people are already seriously affected by the gradual warming of the earth and that number is set to […]
Since international climate change negotiations began in the early 1990s, agriculture has been largely overlooked. This omission was perhaps understandable, given the knowledge of the time. Now, it no longer is. A growing body of evidence shows that the world’s farmers can play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and thus contribute to […]
AFA, as a regional farmers’ organization, and 3 member organizations from Southeast Asian countries participated in the negotiations on the “Medium Term Cooperation Programme with Farmers’ Organizations in the Asia and the Pacific Region” held last May 12-13, 2009 at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Region in Bangkok, Thailand. Esther Penunia […]
Will China be the “growth pole” that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression? This question has become a favorite topic as the heroic American middle class consumer, weighed down by massive debt, ceases to be the key stimulus for global production. Although China’s GDP growth rate fell to 6.1% in the first […]
(NFR Statement on the Manado Incident) We, the 12 member organizations of the NGOs for Fisheries Reform (NFR), strongly condemn the suppression of freedom of speech and expression of the artisanal fisherfolks. We criticize the deportation of the 16 representatives in the Philippine fisheries sector from Manado, Indonesia for alleged violations of Indonesian laws last […]
