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CARP and the Unfinished Business of Agrarian Reform |
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This year, the funding for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ends, although the government’s agrarian reform work is far from over, in terms of Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD) and support service provision. According to DAR reports, partial accomplishment saw to the distribution of approximately 4 Million hectares of land to over 2 million beneficiaries, covering around 77% of the target program scope. With the program left unfinished, at least 600,000 beneficiaries are left hanging, with over a million hectares of targeted private agricultural land yet to be redistributed.
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Alternative Agricultural Road Map (AARM): A Summary by Center for Research and Special Studies |
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CHANGE IN POLICY FRAMEWORK AND DIRECTIONS:
The Constitution unequivocally states: “The State shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural development and agrarian reform…” (Section, 1, Article XII on ‘National Economy and Patrimony’). This is reiterated in Section 2 of the CARP Law (RA 6657 of l988), to wit:
“The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation toward sound rural development and industrialization…”
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Subverting Reform by Raising Wrong Development Policy Choices* |
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by Rene E. Ofreneo, Ph.D.
Center for Labor Justice
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations
Dangerous anti-reform legislative measures
Some Congressional legislative measures meant to weaken and whittle down the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) are being justified in the name of food security and agricultural productivity. The authors of these measures are doing the nation a great disservice by articulating poor or wrong development policy choices and renewing social divisions in the countryside.
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Standing on Tenuous Grounds: The Battle for CARP Extension and Meaningful Reforms |
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“I left my husband and nine children,” says Tessie Opeña during song practice inside a makeshift tent outside the Department of Agrarian Reform. She and 20 more choir members tirelessly rehearse a spoof of a popular Filipino Christmas carol amid one of the biggest struggles of their lives, one that has made them walk hundreds of miles and leave their families behind.
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PLATFORM OF FILIPINO MIGRANT ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPE: Open Letter to President Macapagal Arroyo |
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Nonoi Hacbang/ Filipino Migrant Organizations in Europe
30 October 2008
On the occasion of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)
Dear President Macapagal Arroyo,
It is now four months since the EU 'Return' Directive was passed in the European Parliament (EP) on June 18th, 2008. Through this Directive, the
European Union (EU) has approved the arrest, detention (up to 18 months) and expulsion of undocumented migrants, including children.
While several Presidents from Latin America and Africa have already strongly protested this Directive and its criminalization of migrants, we have
sadly noted your total silence since its promulgation four months ago. As a Filipino Migrant community in Europe numbering 750,000, we are part of the larger transnational migrant community of 16 million. A significant number of our Filipino migrant community is undocumented and are therefore under serious threat from this Directive.
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