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HungerWednesday brings this disturbing forecast of a rice crisis occuring this year because of the worldwide credit crisis. MANILA, Philippines – A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice — a staple for almost 700 million of Asia’s poorest — but it could jump again this year as farmers struggle [...]

Inquirer.Net MANILA, Philippines — World rice prices are likely to rise sharply for the second straight year in 2009 as the global economic slowdown hits farmers and consumers alike, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) warned Friday. The worldwide credit crunch will make it hard for farmers to secure cash to purchase essentials such as [...]

HungerWednesday brings this worrisome development in Cambodia. This is probably happening in other third world countries too. Grain Cambodia is a major target of the global landgrabbing surge that began in March this year when the world food crisis was at its peak. High-ranking foreign delegations have regularly been visiting Phnom Penh, looking to strike [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]