I am Alar-laa Joy Cagata, an aspiring young farmer from Iloilo, Philippines. I come from a family of farmers. Whenever I look at my old parents, I always see hope in agriculture. Due to poverty, at six, I was already helping them on the farm tilling, planting, weeding, and harvesting palay, almost every day. One […]
This story was written by the editorial staff of the EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2021 If you want to have a peaceful life, be a farmer. If you want to be rich, be an entrepreneur. Naning Suprawati is the eldest daughter in a family of farmers and while she never argued with her father, she had […]
The Assembly of the Poor (AOP) is a nationwide grassroots movement for peasants’ rights. AOP members are mostly peasant groups with several worker unions. AOP is a member of La Via Campesina in the Southeast and East Asia Region. Due to their difficult economic situation, the majority of the members still practice conventional agriculture. Although […]