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Overseas Aid and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Working Papers Series
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 21:49
The Overseas Aid and Agrarian Reform Working Papers Series is a joint research initiative and publication of the Belgian Alliance of North-South Movements (11.11.11) and the Focus on the Global South-Philippines. Activist researchers from various non-governmental research institutions have come together to carry out this collective undertaking.
To date, three out of four poor people in the Philippines are rural poor. Land remains central to their autonomy and capacity to construct, sustain and defend their...
Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water LRAN Briefing Paper Series no. 2
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 03:11
On World Food Day, it is estimated that almost a billion people around the world are now suffering from hunger and malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the soaring food prices over the last three years. Of these, about half are estimated to live in smallholder farming households, while roughly two-tenths are landless, another tenth are pastoralists, fisherfolk, and forest users, and the remainder live in the cities. This crisis of world hunger is set to deepen as livelihood...
Rising Military Expenditure in Asia
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 17:01
The potential escalation in the military expenditures worldwide and especially in South Asia has been drawing global attention for a long time. The Focus team has been working on a campaign for reduction in the defence expenditures; this paper is a part of our ongoing campaign and to further strengthen efforts being made for a peaceful world. Weapons are not needed to protect any society and thus the justifications given by the governments, fall flat. It is important for us to understand that to resolve...
FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH Reveals Farewell Present to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 06:02
Manila, Philippines-- On the day that Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally leaves the presidency, think tank FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH unveils its farewell present for Glori-- a book called "Project 2010: Confronting the Legacy of the GMA Regime."PROJECT 2010 is a collaborative initiative of Focus on the Global South and with its friends, colleagues and partners. The book attempts to document key events and unpack important issues that marked the GMA regime.The publication contains 9 pieces covering the 9...
The Clean Development Mechanism Projects in the Philippines: Costly, Dirty, Money-Making Schemes
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 10:02
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a scheme under an international climate change agreement that allows developed countries to buy “credits” from projects that supposedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, instead of cutting their own emissions domestically. In so doing, the scheme claims to be mitigating climate change while also promoting sustainable development.
An evaluation of existing CDM projects in the Philippines as of June 2009, however, raises questions as to...
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