Leader of farmers’ group shot dead in Davao City
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
Mindanao farmers join petition for DAR revamp
Farmers from Bukidnon and Davao Oriental joined some 3,000 farmers in the country to protest against what they call as ?weak leadership? of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) that…
Poor and landless after 19 years of CARP
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Jolito Divinagracia and Ranel Enoc are among the farmers in Tamugan, Calinan district, whose parents are beneficiaries of the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). But almost 20 years into the program, both their families are still having a hard time acquiring the land supposedly awarded to them.New land-reform law eyed to break up land monopoly
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
The KMP said what it proposes will be a better law than the existing CARP, which failed to end the sufferings of farmers after two decades. The new bill will ensure that farmers will no longer lose control of their land. To do that, the proposed bill wll do away with provisions giving the farmers the option to sell their land.Rise in child labor tied to CARP’s failure
