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REJECT THE CANCUN AGENDA!  WTO OUT OF AGRICULTURE! Position Paper on Cancun Round of the WTO Ministerial Meeting, Prepared by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), September 8, 2003

From the pesticide trap to GMO-dependency. Experiences of small farmers in the south and their demands for the future. (PDF format)
Rafael V. Mariano, Chairperson of the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP - Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas). Paper prepared for the conference “Agricultural Research for Whom?” October 12, Bern, Switzerland

World Food Summit Five Years Later: More Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger (PDF format)
Position paper of the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas – KMP) prepared for the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation of NGOs/CSOs on the World Food Summit: Five Years Later. Bangkok, Thailand, 28-29 August 2001

Junk Imperialist Globalization and Increasing Exploitation of the Peasantry!
Fight for Land and the People’s Democratic Demands! (PDF format) 
Keynote address by Rafael V. Mariano, chairperson of KMP, in the workshop on “Agrarian reform and freedom of peasants and farm workers from feudal, semi-feudal and capitalist exploitation” during the First International Assembly of the International League of People’s Struggle, the Netherlands, 25-27 May 2001.

Genuine Agrarian Reform: Still a Distant Dream for the Philippine Peasantry (PDF format)
Paper prepared by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP – Peasant Movement of the Philippines) for the conference “Land in Sight? The Philippine Agrarian Reform – Conflicts, Perspectives, Solidarity”
Germany, 31 March 2001

The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform: Obstacle to Rural Justice (PDF format) Executive summary (HTML format)
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Research Desk, July 2000

Forty Years of IRRI - Forty Years of Peasant Struggle Against Feudalism and Imperialism (PDF format)
Speech delivered by Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano, KMP chairperson, at the “People’s Forum on Forty Years of IRRI” on April 3, 2000

“Genetic Imperialism” And “Bio-Serfdom” The Implications Of Genetic Engineering For Farmers And Agriculture (PDF format)
Keynote of the “Citizens Protecting Health and the Environment Regional Workshop on Genetic Engineering” 30 March – 1 April 2000, Penang, Malaysia by Rafael V. Mariano, chairperson of KMP.

Filipino Peasants Reclaim the Land in Defiance of Imperialist Globalization
Message presented by Danilo H. Ramos, general secretary of the KMP, to Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches in Quezon City, Philippines, on March 16, 2000.

Take Agriculture out of the WTO! Resist Imperialist Globalization!
Speech delivered by Rafael V. Mariano, chairperson of KMP, at the People’s Assembly "Say NO to WTO!" on November 29, 1999

The Politics of Pesticides
Rafael V. Mariano, National Chairperson of KMP, Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific Conference, November 11, 1999

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The Golf War, a video about the struggle of the Hacienda Looc farmers. For ordering and screening information visit the Golf War website or go straight to the screening webpage. 
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GMOs: the wrong answer to the wrong problem
An interview by Michel Bessières with KMP chair Rafael Mariano in the UNESCO Courier of January 2001.

The Impact Of Globalization On The Rural Sector
A paper of KMP chair Rafael Mariano prepared for the Panel Debate on "Who is in control – regulating large companies", 26 January 2001 in Davos, Switzerland

WTO and the Agrarian Reform in the Philippines
Statement on the realisation of the economic, social and cultural rigths submitted to the UN Human Rights Sub-Commission 2000 by Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM)

Asia's Farmers Say No to GM Rice
An article by Masipag in Corpwatch.org.

The False Promise of Genetically Engineered Rice on the website of Greenpeace Germany

Serve the people!
Impressions and highlights from my exposure program in the Philippines
by Francois Meienberg

Go to the countryside and be with the people An article written by Canadian Devlin Kuyek about his one-month integration stay with peasant organizations affiliated to the KMP.


Kamukhaan: A Poisoned Village The story of a village that faces extinction because of poisoning by the pesticides used on a nearby banana plantation.
 
 

 

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