Tag: farmers

Joseph Canlas, detained leader of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas died on May 11 while confined in a hospital in Pampanga province

Several houses were demolished by a property developer after it got the approval of a local court despite the pandemic

On February 5, Romeo Torres, a 52-year old peasant activist in Norzagaray town in Bulacan province, was found dead in the province of Laguna

Being a farmer in the Philippines is becoming more difficult as the country faces the threats of the pandemic, climate change, and hunger

The government has distributed 120,889 hectares of land to 77,275 agrarian reform beneficiaries nationwide from July 2016 to June 2019

The rice liberalization law resulted in the country's "total reliance" on a very limited market for food security

Protesters called on the government to act on the killings of peasants and appealed for “respect for those who produce the food we eat”

Activists in the Philippines and other poor countries dubbed the day "World Hunger Day", and during the pandemic, "World Foodless Day"

A system of injustice had propped up the elite of Negros’ monocrop economy for more than a century

Proclaiming the Word of God is no different sometimes from what the farmer does on the soil to make it disposed for the planting.