Focus on the Global South - Philippines Programme

Dear Readers,

Our October highlights have to do with agriculture, food, land issues, climate change, rural women, agrarian reform--all things interconnected. Find out in our write-up on World Food day why almost a billion people had no reason to celebrate this occasion; also, get new information and insights into what's happening with peoples and communities affected by Clean Development Mechanism projects--has the mechanism really worked and for whom?  This was taken up, and more, during the recent workshop that Focus on the Global South co-organized with CDM Watch in heavily flooded Bangkok--it seems like nature also had a strong message to send to the organizers and participants of the workshop.  Listen to and watch the interesting, in most parts passionate exchanges (can't expect anything less with activist women), during a forum on the state of Filipino women, in particular about rural women.  Now, apart from the paper on CARPER we recently published through Focus Policy Review, you can also watch the discussions and dialogue during the forum on CARPER.  A new broad coalition has been forged recently to strongly push the P-Noy government to implement agrarian reform, specifically to do something about the Hacienda Luisita debacle; the coalition clarifies its position and policy advocacy in its Declaration of Unity.

Sincerely,
Editor

World Food Day: Global Hunger and Malnutrition Become Central Issues
South East Asia Workshop Concludes CDM Failed to Reduce Emissions; Calls for Effective Mitigation beyond Offsetting
Save Agrarian Reform, Complete CARP Now Effectively Implement CARPER! Declaration of Unity

Videos:
State of Filipino Women

Forum on CARPER

• Menchie Obanil opens the CARPER Policy Review Launch
• Mary Ann Manahan and Menchie Obanil on PNoy's lack of political will for Agrarian Reform
• Mary Ann Manahan on the budgetary constraints and unclear priorities in present land reform
• Rodolfo Bueno on the myriad difficulties faced by DAR in CARP
• Rita Macabulos on the advances of CARPER and the continuing saga of Agrarian Reform
• Jimmy Tadeo on the weakness of the DAR bureaucracy and the budget crunches on socialized credit
• Elvie Baladad on the failures of DAR to deliver on redistribution targets, the need for reforms
• Danny Carranza on the propects of CARPER Completion by 2014
• Anthony Parungao on the target challenges faced by DAR in implementing CARP until 2014