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INBOX: Farmer-Scientist Group Says No to Public Land Lease to Foreign Corporations |
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Written by Newsbreak Online
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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We, the Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG Inc) believes that this move of the government (DENR, Phil Coconut Authority and the Office of the President) to lease huge tracts of public land exclusively to private hands (Pacific Bio-Fields Plc, a Japanese holding company based on UK and its local counterpart Bio-Energy North Luzon Inc) at ‘very affordable’ rates for 25 years and renewable for another 25 years is the perfect recipe to another national rice and food crisis, perhaps maybe worse than the Food Crisis early last year. |
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Land lease to aliens to worsen food crisis |
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Written by Paul Gutierrez, People's Tonight
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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In our country where a large portion of the population relies on agriculture as a source of livelihood, land disparity hurts most of our resource-poor farmers and their families. A GROUP of farmers and scientists based in Los Baños, Laguna, warned the government of worsening rice and food crisis should it persist on leasing to foreigners for up to 50 years vast tracks of the country’s arable land for its biofuels program. |
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New book asserts farmer-led sustainable agriculture key to food security |
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Written by MASIPAG Information Unit
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
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 “There are solutions to the problems of the world today, and they are already being practiced by tens of thousands of people in the Philippines.”
Food security and poverty alleviation is possible, thanks to an agricultural system that puts the interest of the small farmers front and center.
This is the positive message of a new book called “Food Security and Farmer Empowerment: A study of the impacts of farmer-led sustainable agriculture in the Philippines” which shows the overwhelming benefits of a sustainable agriculture system led and practiced by small-scale farmers. The book is a summary of the results of an extensive impact evaluation of MASIPAG, a nation-wide network of farmers, scientists and NGOs promoting and implementing sustainable agriculture (SA) for more than 20 years now. |
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