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 […]
TASK FORCE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY 22 February 2007 We are seriously concerned with the visit of WTO Director General Pascal Lamy in the Philippines. Coming right after his visit in Indonesia, his Philippine tour aims at increasing pressure on the Philippine government to abandon its strong position on SP/SSM. His visit clearly reflects the use of […]
To GMA: Do not trade away our Rights! To the Filipino People: We deserve leaders who will fight for our Rights! “Agriculture and Food†not “Agriculture and Trade†Statement of the International Gender and Trade Network Lamy is clearly applying political pressure on Indonesia and the Philippines to soften their stance on Special Products and […]
