Srakaew Province, Thailand — Kok Edoi Community was established in 1997 by villagers from 6 villages in Thapparat Sub-district, Ta Phraya District, Srakaew Province near the Cambodian border. The villagers were moved out from their original farmland because the Border Patrol Police wants the land for military practices in 1993. After joining the Assembly of […]
BATANGAS, PHILIPPINES – Families in the coastal barangays of Calatagan, Batangas have always relied on the sea for sustenance. Families’ incomes are dependent on fishing and seaweed farming. Seaweed farming started in Calatagan in the 1980s through a project of the UP Marine Science Institute (UP MSI). When the project ended, a couple with their […]
BUKIDNON, PHILIPPINES – The story of the Sumilao farmers boasts of a successful but long and hard struggle for their right to land. In 1997, 18 members of Mapadayonong Panaghiusa sa mga Lumad Alang sa Damlag (MAPALAD) went on hunger strike to demand that 144 hectares of their ancestral land be given back to them. […]