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Stop land grabbing now
Thursday 26 August 2010
Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank > continue
New Blog on Oilpalm in Africa
Tuesday 24 August 2010
http://oilpalminafrica.wordpress.com/ > continue
SPECIAL COVERAGE: HACIENDA LUISITA
Contrary to What Cojuangco-Aquinos Say, Farming Improved Lives of Many Luisita Folk
Slideshow
Tuesday 24 August 2010
After the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council ordered the revocation of the SDO in Hacienda Luisita, the farmer beneficiaries launched what they call a "bungkalan" or the cultivation of idle Luisita land. It was both a political statement and a matter of survival for the farm workers who were (...) > continue
Tales from Hacienda Luisita
By Solita Collas-Monsod
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Philippine Daily Inquirer > continue
PRESS RELEASE
Pull-out military from Hacienda Luisita, peasants urged Noynoy
Tuesday 24 August 2010
August 17, 2010 --- Reference: Roy Morilla, KMP Public Information Officer (0907-418-0098) > continue
What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
Thursday 5 August 2010
With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta!” ("Enough already!") Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization.
Skip to 2010: the movements for indigenous rights and (...) > continue
By: Carmina Flores-Obanil and Mary Ann Manahan*
Agrarian Reform Agenda: Not P-Noy’s Priority
On CARPER’s First Anniversary
Thursday 5 August 2010
Again, there was no mention of agrarian reform in President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address; there had been no reference to it either in his inaugural speech. What was there before these two occasions was confusion created by contradicting statements of businessman and Aquino’s (...) > continue
NEWS RELEASE: The armed men formed a line, pointed their guns at us and fired
Thursday 5 August 2010
MARAMAG, Bukidnon— " The armed men formed a line, pointed their guns at us and fired," This was how Erlinda Bacandon described how around ten gunmen fired at a group of farmers who occupied a ranch owned by a prominent supporter of President Benigno Aquino Jr., in Maramag town, Bukinon this (...) > continue
M.S. Sreerekha and A.K. Ramakrishnan
Hengara: Perseverance and hope
Chengara Struggle Site, Pathanamthitta
Wednesday 28 July 2010
August 2010 will be three years after hundreds of families forcefully settled themselves in the plantation land at Chengara, which is otherwise illegally occupied by the Harrison’s Plantations. A visit to Chengara in June 2010, in a reasonably ’peaceful’ time, have been a very interesting (...) > continue
The World Bank’s Development Assistance to Agrarian Reform in the Philippines
Anti-Land Reform Land Policy?
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Danilo Carranza, Jennifer C. Franco and Mary Ann Manahan
Sunday 18 July 2010
Abstract
Historically the World Bank (WB) has been actively involved in land policies, specifically in land reform and private land titling campaigns, worldwide. The Philippines has been among the significant recipients of the World Bank’s policy advice and development assistance on land issues (...) > continue
