Farmers’ harvests this year are disappointingly smaller than before – not just in amount but in size also of the grains itself.
Scant gov’t response to climate change hitting farmers the hardest
Tags: El Niño phenomenon
Hungry peasants being met with violence by gov’t
“Kidapawan should not be another Escalante, Mendiola or Luisita.”
Distribute rice, release funds for drought-stricken farmers, gov’t told
There is enough supply of rice and there are funds that can be used to help the farmers.
#BigasHindiBala | Groups from 60 countries urge UN envoy to look into starvation due to El Niño
The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) noted that the ongoing Senate inquiry revealed anomalies in calamity fund distribution and the government’s failure to provide food relief to families suffering from the effects of El Niño.