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.

PH can also learn from Cuba’s food security path

Aside from running an efficient health care system and achieving genuinely universal health coverage, the Philippines can also learn from how Cuba achieved food security with the practice of sustainable agriculture.

Incoming admin should ban GMOs, go organic–Green Action PH

Small farmers practice bayanihan (collective work) in organic rice farms across the country. Shown in this picture is an organic rice farm in Bgy. Orong, in Kabankalan town, Negros Occidental which used to be part of the 50-hectare Hacienda Galang.

Green Action PH | Multi-sector group Green Action PH urged the incoming administration under presumptive leader Rodrigo Duterte to put public safety first and ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the country. The group recommended for the new president to heed consumer clamor to apply the precautionary principle and thoroughly evaluate the impact of GMOs instead of continuing the current administration’s policy of active promotion.

Support Filipino Organic Farmers

In the Philippines, promoting green action means supporting Filipino farmers’ struggle for genuine land reform. Filipino consumers can only begin choosing organic over non-organic when Filipino farmers have become empowered to produce organic crops.