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VIDEO COVERAGE
KMP pickets National Food Summit
Here are the links to the video coverage (done by GMANews.TV-QTV) about the rally in front of the national office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City yesterday (April 4) as part of the WORA 2008 events in the...
INSTEAD OF FOOD SUMMIT
Rice cartel abolition, genuine land reform bill OK pushed
By Abigail Kwok, INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines, 4 April 2008 -- Citing the national food summit as a “useless” move to solve the looming rice crisis in the country, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) pushed,...
IRRI TOLD TO GET OUT OF ASIA!
Week of Rice Action culminated in street protests
By Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano
Laguna, Philippines--- “IRRI out of Asia!” This was the resounding call of more than 1,000 Filipino farmers that trooped in front of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) headquarters on...
ASIAN PEASANTS AND SCIENTISTS:NO TO GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED RICE; YES TO GENUINE LAND REFORM!
By Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano
Manila, Philippines--- Peasants and scientists celebrated Asia’s most treasured rice culture by issuing a strong statement that they hoped would reverberate among peoples for the challenging years to come: NO to genetic...
CHILDREN’S ART RE-AFFIRM IMPORTANCE OF PHILIPPINE RICE CULTURE
By Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano
Manila, Philippines--- Young participants of the Asian-wide Week of Rice Action (WORA) expressed through art the importance of Philippine rice culture.
Twenty children of farmers, fisherfolk, and urban-based activists took...