Facing head-on the looming food production shortage due to climate change, Centro Saka Inc., in partnership with the Moro Farmers Association In Zamboanga del Sur and Sebugay (MOFAZS), developed a community-based module for Farmer Field School (FFS) on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). Dubbed as Agri-Klima FFS, the FFS-CCA module was developed by men and women farmers of 6 barangays in the province of Zamboanga Sebugay. ....read more>>>

CSI Donates Digital Rain Gauges in Selected Farming Communities in Zamboanga Sibugay

Centro Saka, Inc. (CSI), in partnership with the Moro Farmers Association In Zamboanga del Sur and Sebugay (MOFAZS), donated four (4) digital rain gauges in selected rice farming communities in Zamboanga Sibugay. These were in Baragays Muyo, Pling and Villacastor in the municipality of Buug; and Barangay Mejo in the municipality of Diplahan. ....read more>>>

Farmers Call to Noynoyin his First 100 Days: Distribute Hacienda Luisita

Some 200 farmers and agrarian reform advocates belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM) today held a rally in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) demanding President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to distribute Hacienda Luisita under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) within the first 100 days of his term. RCM made the call as they commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the enactment of the agrarian reform program. ....read more>>>

Farmers Group Demand Land Distribution for Catalino Noel Estate ARBs

“President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino. Jr. should immediately install the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) to their awarded lands and provide them security as provided under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the Catalino Noel Estate in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental.”. ....read more>>>

Beyond the Maguindanao Massacre

We condemn in the strongest terms the Maguindanao massacre--the senseless slaughter and mutilation of unarmed women, journalists, lawyers and even unborn babies was so shocking that words fail to convey the outrage felt by those of us who were horrified by the tragedy. ....read more>>>

PCGG is Now an Adversary Instead of the Protector of the Oppressed

PCGG Commissioner Ricardo Abcede boasted that the small farmers could no longer stop the conversion of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) common shares into preferred shares. ....read more>>>

Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng: Threats to Food Security

The dailies report that a whooping P5.5 billion worth of facilities and crops were damaged by typhoon Ondoy. As this piece is being written, initial estimates put the damage of Typhoon Pepeng at P550 million for a total of P6 billion. But the damage could be much higher! ....read more>>>

Supreme Court Reverses Victory of the Small Coconut Farmers

This is in reaction to the article dubbed, "PCGG approves conversion of government shares in SMC" that appeared on October 07, 2009. ....read more>>>

Understanding the Women's Role
in Agriculture and Food Security

The food crisis last year prompted government to implement food rationing and feeding programs to help the poor cope. This year, government beefed up the welfare budget, focusing in particular on conditional cash transfers and food subsidies especially for so-called families at risk as additional measures to mitigate hunger. ....read more>>>

An Agrarian Crisis in the Making

As the importance of agrarian reform and rural development is underscored, given the multiple crises in our midst, the country's agrarian reform program has been further undermined. In 2008, demonstrations, rallies, long marches abounded as pro-agrarian reform forces waged a campaign to introduce major reforms and have the funding of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) extended. ....read more>>>

Land Acquisition and Distribution

"This directive will trigger a crisis and create chaos in the countryside."

This was the statement of Centro Saka Inc. (CSI) after discovering that the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has directed its personnel to defer all land acquisition and distribution (LAD) activities under compulsory acquisition (CA) regardless of the stage of implementation. ....read more>>>

State Abandonment of Agrarian Reform

The die is cast.

By forsaking agrarian reform and social justice, Congress has exposed itself as the weakest democratic institution. Even worse, the legislators killed the social justice program at a time when the world is calling for the recognition of the rights of the landless rural poor. ....read more>>>

Farmers Condemn Landlord-Solons for Blocking CARP Extension

Centro Saka, Inc. (CSI), a farmer-based, policy research non-government organization, today strongly condemned the landlord-legislators in the House of Representatives for blocking the passage of a bill extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). ....read more>>>

Landlord-Solons Obstructing Social Justice

House Speaker Prospero Nograles and his big landlord-cohorts should be held accountable if Congress fails to approve the passage of the CARP extension with reforms bill (or HB 4077) ....read more>>>

Anxiously Waiting - Hundreds of farmers belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM) held a vigil in front of the House of Representatives awaiting the outcome of the House Committee on Agrarian Reform deliberation on the CARP extension bills.....read more>>>