Jakarta, Indonesia March 21, 2007 We are the small women and men farmers, indigenous people, fisherfolk, non-government organizations, research and advocacy groups and other agricultural stakeholders calling on the G33 to resist the underhanded acts of the United States, European Union and other WTO members to undermine the right of developing countries’ to protect agricultural […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia was invited to a globally televised debate entitled “Failing the Farmersâ€, which was produced by TVE for BBC World in cooperation with IFAD last March 31 in London. She joined a panel of fourteen international panelists in considering the most salient issues confronting small farmers today.
Salembai Abdullah and Jaime Manalo IV | PhilRice Nearly 500 farmers, agricultural technicians, municipal agriculturists, journalists, and students from Central, Southern, and Western Mindanao and the ARMM gathered at PhilRice Midsayap in North Cotabato for its Field Day and Pest Clinic on April 18, 2007. PhilRice Midsayap is PhilRice’s pest management center.
 Bert Peeters | LEISA Magazine Over the last four years, the Cabiokid farm in Cabiao, the Philippines, has been developed following the priniciples of permaculture. Fields where mono-cropping and chemical farming techniques had been common for many years were transformed and now produce rice together with many other crops. The analysis of its transition […]
TASK FORCE MAPALAD PRESS RELEASE March 22, 2007 Email: tfmnational@yahoo.com <mailto:tfmnational@yahoo.com> After 10 years of struggle and a series of failed promises, the 122 farmer-beneficiaries of the contentious Hacienda Velez-Malaga in Barangay Robles, La Castellana, Negros Occidental were finally installed in the land awarded to them five years ago under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program […]
By TJ Burgonio, Carla Gomez www.inquirer.net | Last updated 06:33am (Mla time) 03/23/2007 MANILA, Philippines — After 11 years of waging battle in the courtroom and on the streets, 57 of the 122 farmer-beneficiaries of a sugarcane plantation in Negros Occidental subjected to land reform were finally installed Thursday in a portion of the area […]
Task Force Food Sovereignty (TFFS) Press Release February 23, 2007 Farmers’ Network Hit Lamy’s Encroachment on Agriculture Policies Makati City, Philippines- More than 400 farmers, fisherfolks, urban poor and representatives of development NGOs under the coalition Task Force Food Sovereignty (TFFS) and Rice Watch Network (R1), Stop The New Round! Coalition-Philippines (SNR) gathered in front […]
STOP THE NEW ROUND! COALITION PRESS RELEASE FARMERS AND FISHERS DISRUPT LAMY’S MEETING WITH BUSINESS Loud shouts of protest greet WTO Director General’s visit to Manila MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES- Vowing to let Pascal Lamy hear the loud cries of poor sectors, farmers and fishers gate crashed and disrupted a meeting today organized by Philippine business […]
