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Here’s a very informative presentation from CEDAC on the rice crisis in Cambodia. It also presents the need to support small farmers and adoption of “farmers’ innovations such as the Systematic Rice Intensification (SRI) and the MASIPAG rice breeding program” instead of the IRRI’s “second” green revolution nonsense.
This powerpoint presentation was prepared by Winfried Scheewe, [...]

This is an old research undertaken by PhilDHRRA Luzon to develop a monitoring system that will track the performance of each member NGO based on their set commitment to rural poverty reduction. The monitoring system is part of the operational framework on rural poverty reduction that rationalizes the role of each NGO member and the [...]

I came upon this rather bewildering post in Time Magazine while googling for the current rice crisis. This write-up was datelined Monday, Jul. 02, 1973!!! amazing to know that today’s “rice crisis” has happened before.
Rice is life itself in Southeast Asia, and this year there is not enough to go around. Freakishly bad weather last [...]

Couples get old, and so do their children. Soon they will marry, leave the house, and leave their parents in their solitary house. In much the same way, their parents get to appreciate plants, gardening, and everything that is green.
Silveria and Danilo Rivero of Isabela City in Basilan are such parents. They spend their days [...]

Paper Prepared by: Bambang Ismawan (President and Director, Bina Swadaya)
(A case study of a village where the Self Reliance Development Foundation -Bina Swadaya- works in Indonesia)
Sidamulya village is located in the District of Subang, in the Province of West Java, 25 km away from the main city. Its population is 5431 with 547/km2 of population [...]

by Mahar Mangahas | Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines — Next week, some 55 farmers — 15 of them women — will reach Manila in a quest for social justice, after walking more than 1,600 kilometers from the town of Sumilao in the southern province of Bukidnon, starting last Oct. 10. They regularly walked about 30 [...]

DHRRA Malaysia represented by the Dengkil Community Center will be among the people’s organizations chosen to present “Voices from the Grassroots” during the First Plenary of ACSC-3 entitled Regionalism for the People: Building a Social ASEAN to be held on Friday, 02 November 2007.
Seetha Sinapan, DHRRA Malaysia, will present an overview of the various issues [...]

Quezon City, Philippines — As a non-violent way of protesting the more than 10 years of injustice they have gone through in trying to reclaim their ancestral land, 50 “lumad” farmers belonging to the Mapalad Multi-purpose Cooperative (MPC) will march on foot from their hometown of Sumilao, Bukidnon in the south to the capital city [...]

Ms. Marlene Ramirez, AsiaDHRRA Secretary General has been invited by FFTC to present a paper on the role of women in agriculture entitled Ensuring Rural Women’s Voice in Agricultural Policy Formulation at the seminar on Enhancement of Women Farmers’ Role in the Development of Rural Asia to be held on October 15-19, 2007 in Suwon, [...]

IN 2006, VietDHRRA completed the household surveys for 11 pilot villages at 10 different provinces throughout the country. Covered in the research were the existing situation of farmer production, community lives and potentials of human resource development for rural areas.
The network also conducted 6 TOT courses for more than 150 participants coming from 19 VietDHRRA [...]

In view of the social impact of the financial and economic crisis, the Sixth ASEAN Summit held in Hanoi in December 1998 proclaimed its resolve to safeguard the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged. The Hanoi Plan of Action mandates that ASEAN shall implement the Plan of Action on ASEAN Rural Development and Poverty Eradication [...]

Two members were visited within the first quarter of 2007 namely DHRRA Malaysia and InDHRRA. The main objective of the visit was, after the formal mandate from the assembly in 2006, to share the strategic plan to a broader stakeholder of each DHRRA (staff and Board) the AsiaDHRRA strategic plan and generate deeper understanding and [...]

Desperate fishermen, distraught farmers,… In the struck province of Aceh, there must have been several thousands. Millions of euros were collected and put at their disposal by governments to smooth out the consequences of the tsunami. However, the means are primarily allocated to repairing roads, bridges and government buildings. Naturally, this is not unjust. Vredeseilanden, [...]

by ASEAN
Cooperation in Food
Over the past year, demands for rice and sugar in ASEAN rose, but their supply still exceeded regional requirements. In view of this situation, the earmarked quantity of 87,000 metric tons of rice in the ASEAN Emergency Rice Reserve Requirements (AERR) will be maintained at the same level. To better [...]

One of the major activities of the Sustainable Rice Campaign being undertaken jointly by AsiaDHRRA and AFA is the conduct of a Regional Forum on Rice: Promoting Sustainable Rice, Upholding the Interests of Small Rice Farmers. This forum is scheduled to be held August 11-19 in Tagaytay City, Philippines. During this forum, a training-workshop on [...]