Press Release December 11, 2008 Contact: Elaine Teope, PAKISAMA (0919)6190466/Maricel Tolentino, ANGOC 4337653-54 or (0917)8191089/Rene Peñas, PAKISAMA-Sumilao farmer (0906)8315336 As the seven-day promise of Secretary Sylvestre Bello to act on their case ended yesterday, the protesting Banasi farmers marched to Malacanang anew at 8:30 AM. They would like to meet with Secretary Bello and demand […]
PRESS STATEMENT November 26, 2008 Bring Ka Vic’s Killers to Justice Immediately ! Stop Political Killings in the Philippines ! We, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, an alliance of nine national farmers’ organizations in eight countries in Asia, are shocked, dumbfounded, and deeply in sorrow and righteous anger over the shameless and […]
By Juan Escandor Jr. Southern Luzon Bureau Posted date: November 20, 2008 MANILA, Philippines – At 4 a.m. Tuesday, the second day of their 21-day or 444-kilometer walk to Malacañang that started Monday in Bula town in Camarines Sur, 51 farmers and their supporters left Naga City to press for a reversal of Executive Secretary […]
To Demand PGMA to Give them back their land and to Call for the Immediate Passage of CARPER Bill PAKISAMA Press Statement 17 November 2008, Camarines Sur, Philippines Contact Persons: PAKISAMA: Rene Cerilla 0919-2363496 / Soc Banzuela 0917-7188986 After a short program attended by various support groups, forty-five farmers (12 women, 33 men) from Banasi […]
by Jerome Dumlao 31 October 2008, Pasig City, Philippines – The International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations is spending $18.3 million to help the Philippines improve rice production. IFAD vice president Kanayo Nwanze announced the UN agency’s latest support for the country’s rural sector during the IFAD Knowledge and Learning Market held […]
by Kang, Min Su, AFA October 14, Davao City, Phlippines. Farmer leaders and staff from AFA members in Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Korea exchanged experiences on organic farming in an informal sharing session last October 14, in the Mindanao office of PAKISAMA, a national farmers’ confederation in the Philippines. Meeting the fifteen organic farmers from […]
2008-09-23 13:30:00, Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth, Commodity Online Indian agriculture is facing a policy paradox. It has been primarily characterised as a means of subsistence, small investments, small return and a source of livelihood for the rural households. Till recent past element of commerce was limited to a few commercial crops such as jute, sugarcane, […]
New policy to transfer land-use rights a sign of deepening economic and social crisis Mon, 6 Oct 2008, chinaworker.info reporters During the holiday week, on 30 September, president Hu Jintao paid a symbolically loaded visit to a village in Anhui province, hailed as the spot where 30 years ago Deng Xiaoping’s decollectivisation policy took root. […]
