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[Event] Forum and Book Launch of "Transitions"
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:19
Focus-Philippines launches its newest publication Transitions/Yearbook 2011 through a forum, One Year after P-Noy’s Election: Where/What are we Transitioning to? Invited speakers: Prof. Roland Simbulan; Dean Rene Ofreneo; Sec. Dinky Soliman (tbc); Ka Bobby Tañada (tbc); peasant leader Corazon Peña; labor leaders Wilson Fortaleza/Yuen AbanaFocus offers a one- time huge discount on the first sale of Transitions — P250 only per copy! Regular price after launch is P350.
Alternative Regionalisms, Challenging Capitalist Agriculture, Climate Justice, Decommodification and Agrarian Reform, Essential Goods and Services, Peoples’ Food Sovereignity, Philippines, Project on Sustainable Cities, Critical Discourse on Alternatives, Deglobalisation, Finance, Trade, Peace & Democracy, Reclaiming the Commons
[Press Release] There can be no justifications for land grabbing!” social movements and CSOs tell World Bank, UN agencies and governments
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 18:57
17 April 2011Today, on the International Day of Peasant Struggles, prominent farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, human rights and research organisations have sharply criticised the World Bank, three UN agencies and governments for promoting agricultural investments that are resulting in land grabbing on a massive scale. From 18-20 April, investors, government officials and staff of international agencies will gather in Washington DC for the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty to discuss how to...
Occasional Paper 9: Tale of Two Economies
Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 10:29
For generations, the peoples of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) have practised locally-developed, diverse forms of agriculture and fisheries. The majority of the country's population depends directly on small-holder agriculture and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Over the past decades, the country's decision-makers have adopted a development strategy aimed at rapid expansion of the monetary economy through exploitation of the country's natural wealth—land, forests, rivers,...
Focus on the Philippines April 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 22:48
Dear Readers,
This April, Focus on the Philippines
covers water and energy issues as we mark Earth month, with statements
and analysis from the Peoples’ Water Forum as well as papers regarding
the proposed nuclear option and revival of the Bataan Nuclear Power
Plant (BNPP). The issue also includes a special section on the G20 and
posts data from the National Statistical Coordination Board regarding
the poor and climate change.
This issue also takes us to
Istanbul, London and China. Here, Mary Ann Manahan...
