by Biotani and GRAIN Just under two years ago Indonesia’s central government launched a major hybrid rice programme. The plan was to convert over 135,000 ha of prime rice land to hybrid rice production by offering farmers free seeds, which the government would purchase from private seed companies. It was a great deal for seed […]
PAKISAMA* The Higaonons are indigenous people of southern Philippines. Their ancestral land stretches across the valley of Sayawan and Palaopao mountains in Bukidnon province. But people who did not belong to their community obtained the legal ownership of the land. In the 1930s, there were forcibly evicted from their balaang yuta(holy land). They returned as […]
(Ms. Luisita Esmao, or Ate Sita as we call her, is a widow, rice and coconut farmer from the town of Tayabas, province of Quezon, in the Philippines. She is also President of LAKAMBINI or Lakas ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan [Strength of Women in the Countryside], a national organization of small scale women farmers in […]
Rene Peñas, PAKISAMA’s National Vice President, drops a streamer rapel-style from the pedestrian overpass in front of St. Peter’s Church in Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City. PAKISAMA is joined by farmers from Sumilao, Banasi and Calatagan, fisherfolk leaders from MAMAMAYAN, and students from the University of Caloocan. See more information at the PAKISAMA website
1. How does climate change affect women farmers and how can they better adapt to it? Agriculture is going through a lot of changes worldwide. These changes include positive elements such as industrialization, technology development, and mass production. But it also includes negative elements such as scarcity of natural resources due to climate change. These […]
Last week, a blog I wrote entitled 1500 Farmers Commit Suicide: A Wake Up Call for Humanity was virally shared online, and was the featured story on the home page of Huffington Post. Referencing a story from The Independent that was vague on details and called them “mass” suicides, undoubtedly, I participated in the sensationalization […]
By Tsai Shu Hui, AFA PAKISAMA, together with AFA, organized national consultation – dialogue on ASEAN economic and trade issues that will tackle and analyze the rice crisis from the perspective of the ASEAN region. Multi-sectoral representatives were present in the forum. This included people from the NGO community, farmer groups, and so on. The […]
On 7 June 2021, the National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperatives (NAMAC), AFA member in Mongolia, conducted a national independent dialogue in Mongolia as part of the pre-events for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021. The dialogue was participated by smallholder farmers, herders, pastoralists, and other food producers from various parts of the country. […]
