Land to the tiller, food for all music album Punlaan launched

‘Fertile soil’ as convergence of original Filipino music on struggle of farmers, indigenous folks

Research group IBON Foundation launched on October 22, 2016 the music album Punlaan. The music album was themed around IBON’s 2014 research work “Green Works” that probed the viability of organic farming in the Philippines. The book featured an array of active organic farmers’ groups successfully practicing non-chemical farming founded on the strengths and benefits of collective efforts. While it presented the health and economic advantages of sustainable, natural farming that others term ‘organic’,  the book revealed that before the consumption of organic products can be campaigned to the Filipino public, the fundamental question of addressing organic producers’ poverty stemming from systemic landlessness and related socio-economic ills must be resolved.