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Madaum agrarian reform beneficiaries cut down the remaining banana trees owned by Lapanday Foods Corporation after they reclaimed their land on Friday, Dec. 9 in Barangay Madaum, Tagum City. An estimate of 10 hectares of land were denuded already since the ARBs began cutting down the banana trees on Tuesday. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Farmers demand to certify free land distribution measure as urgent

As peace talks between the government and the communists will focus on free land distribution, a militant farmers group urged Congress to pass a new agrarian reform law.

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Read more about the article 1M hectares of land seen to be distributed under proposed GRP-NDFP socio reforms deal 
Despite the recent violence that happened inside the banana plantation reclaimed by members of the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association, Inc. in Madaum, Tagum City, Davao del Norte, a farmer bike his way going around the plantation. At least nine protesters were injured after two incidents of attack against the farmers group on December 12 and December 14, 2016. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

1M hectares of land seen to be distributed under proposed GRP-NDFP socio reforms deal 

The Filipino farmers may be one step nearer to reaching their dream of having their own lands once an agreement on social and economic reforms is signed within this year between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

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GRP, NDFP to fast-track land distribution, joint ceasefire pact

The fourth round of peace talks ended on a positive note to pursue free land distribution, amid snags admitted by both the negotiating panels of the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

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SUCCESSFUL ROUND. The Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines conclude the fourth round of talks on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. Negotiators of the government and the NDFP raises their arms with the third party facilitator from the Royal Norwegian Government. L-R: NDFP peace panel Chairperson Fidel Agcaoili, NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison, Norwegian Special Envoy to the Philippine Peace Process Elisabeth Slattum, Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza and GRP Chief Negotiator Silvestre Bello III. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

SUCCESSFUL ROUND

The Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines conclude the fourth round of talks on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. (More...) (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article ‘No, it’s not a truce yet, but it’s a step forward’
The peace panels of the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines signed an agreement to forge an interim joint ceasefire during the fourth round of talks in Noordwijk, The Netherlands Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

‘No, it’s not a truce yet, but it’s a step forward’

What the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines signed here on Wednesday was not yet a truce.

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