Women farmer-leaders belonging to the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) are featured in a poster produced by the CGIAR on the theme women and climate change, to be published in June. Ms. Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul of SorKorPor (Thailand), Ms. Luisita Esmao of LAKAMBINI-PAKISAMA (Philippines), Ms. Jang of WAFF (Korea), and Ms. Esther Penunia […]
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.
Dissatisfied with the hasty conclusion of the police investigation into the murder of its leader, PAKISAMA, together with other concerned civil society organizations, today formed a fact-finding body to conduct an independent investigation into the murder of Renato Penas last June 5. Ka Rene was ambushed June 5, 2009 at between 11:30pm to 1:00am 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 […]
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 […]
