Landlessness And Peasant Woes: A Lingering Calamity
Published at IBON website Wednesday, 21 October 2009
IBON Features - Recent tropical storms Ondoy and Pepeng reportedly caused P20 billion worth of damages to agriculture and destroyed crops amounting to P11 billion. But disaster or no disaster, this year's Peasant Month again finds the Filipino farmer still deep in distress from the effects of unprecedented land-use conversion, land monopoly, high rent, usury and low wages, lack of government support and a litany of social injustices-or the failure that was the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)..... MORESource: IBON FOUNDATION
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