Provide Support Services for ARBs instead of Farmland as Collateral - Agrarian Reform Advocates Urge PGMA

The Reform CARP Movement (RCM), a broad coalition of small farmer organizations, non-government organizations, and other agrarian reform advocates pushing for the passage of the CARP extension with reforms bills, ....read more>>>

SONA ng KANAYUNAN: RAMDAM NA RAMDAM ANG LUMALALANG KAHIRAPAN

RAMDAM na RAMDAM na po, Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at mga Mambabatas sa Mataas at Mababang Kapulungan, ang LUMALALANG Kahirapan, Kagutuman at Karahasan ng mga mahihirap sa kanayunan. ....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>>>

House AR Committee Supports CARP Extension with Reforms

On April 23, 2008, members of the House Committee on Agrarian Reform voted for the approval of the consolidated bill extending CARP with reforms. ....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>>>

CENTRO SAKA INC.ON THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN

The Centro Saka, together with the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), supports endeavors that seek to empower the rural women sector. ....read more>>>

Arroyo's FIELDS only favor Rice Hybridization

The  multi-billion additional funding for rice and several other crops is a welcome development, but we disagree with how the government plans to spend it. Going through the components of the package, dubbed FIELDS, ....read more>>>

Farmers' Group prod Congress to enact CARP Extension with Reforms Bill

Hundreds of farmers and advocates belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM), a broad coalition calling for the extension and reform of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), held a picket-rally last Wednesday ....read more>>>

Rice Farmers Blast Group of Rice Advisers

Several rice farmers' organizations today questioned the composition of the Eminent Persons Group set up by Malacañang to advise the President on rice policy. ....read more>>>

Expand Land Conversion Moratorium Proposal Says NGO

Centro Saka, Inc. (CSI), a farmer-based, policy research, non-government organization today called on the Arroyo administration to expand its policy proposal imposing a moratorium on the conversion of agricultural lands into real estate development purposes. ....read more>>>

Rice Hybridization is NOT the Solution

The Agriculture secretary hit it right on the mark when he admitted that the current food production shortfalls can be traced back to decades of government neglect of agriculture. Instead of ensuring that the farmers had access to good seeds ....read more>>>