Why CARPER Is Worse Than CARP
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat MANILA (June 14, 2009) - It seemed incongruous, the sight of farmers marching toward Mendiola, carrying placards and chanting angry words against the extension of…
New book guides grassroots landcare approach
Manila -- A new book on landcare was launched by Australian ambassador Rod Smith, marking a new era for the emerging landcare community development initiative in the southern Philippines. The…
Davao farmers do not welcome CARP extension
Peasants and Lumad groups are against the existing agrarian-reform law. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today
Farmers groups in Davao are dismayed over the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) until December 31. They're calling instead for the approval of the "Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill" that seeks to implement free distribution of lands to farmers and lift the heavy amortization rates shouldered by CARP beneficiaries. It also seeks to promote cooperatives and other mutual-aid techniques, which the KMP believes will raise the productivity and the standard of living of farmers, eventually "laying the foundation for national industrialization."Remembering Celso Pojas
Slain peasant leader Celso Pojas is revered by poor folk.
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
On that early morning of May 15 this year, Celso Pojas, 45, was sipping a cup of coffee inside the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (KMP) office in Bugac, Maa when he got up, told a colleague he had to buy few cigarette sticks and went outside. Nobody had an inkling it was to be their last time to talk to him. As the secretary- general of Farmers's Association of Davao City (FADC), Pojas was preparing to go to Compostela town as part of the support groups to attend to hundreds of Lumads, who were fleeing their homes in Monkayo and Compostela because of military operations there.Justice sought for murdered peasant leader
