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Farmer ends hunger strike; exposes pro-GMO agenda of FAO meeting
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Filipino farmer, Isidoro Boy Ancog, ended his hunger strike on March 4 after protesting for three days at a meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ancog, who is one of the few farmers that were able to participate in that meeting, went on a hunger strike last March 2 after intervening in a plenary session of the 10th FAO international technical conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries (ABDC-10). Ancog objected to the fact that the Conference appeared to be promoting biotechnology, including the commercial use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as the most viable solution to poverty and hunger in developing countries.

Ancog, an organic farmer from Bohol province, said, “I have observed that small scale men and women farmers and fishers, who form the majority of the poor in this world, are so underrepresented in this room.

Liberalization of food crops do not sacrificing the Peasants
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Kompas – Thursday, 6 March 2008 – Government planned to liberalize sub-sector of food crops should not sacrificing small peasant. Especially if that liberalization only emerging cartels in sector of food . 

Base on Kompas observations centres productions of food crops such as in Subang, Karawang, Indramayu and Cirebon, Wednesday (5/3) most of citizen in the national production centers now does not have any of land.

They only become a sharecroppers or peasant laborer. The advantages as sharecroppers too small, it because crop harvest should cut for production expense, including land rent expense which continue rising.

Tangin (52) citizen of Jimpret, widasari, Indramayu regency, reveal, the expense rent of rice field per shoulder (bahu) in his regency 25 quintal of dry milled grain (GKG). With assumption the price of GKG IDR 2000 per kilogram only, land rent expenses of the 25 quintal equivalent with IDR 5 million.
Land Conflict complicated, BPN form a “Ad Hoc” team.
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Kompas, Friday, 31/08/2007 – Conflicts of land in Indonesia nowadays dramatically rising and complex. At first only 2000 cases, now become 7.444 cases nationally. Most of the land cases is very complicated in settlement.

To settled of that cases immediately, National land Agency (BPN) form an Ad Hoc team along with Indonesian Police, especially to solve the land cases which indicated as criminal. Despite to settlement partly of others land conflict, BPN use a mediation approach and trough the court process. 

Thus revealed by the Chief of BPN Joyo Winoto at the opening of Congress IV of Functionary Maker Association of Land Certificate (IPPAT) in Surabaya, Thursday (30/8). The ceremonial opened by the Vice of President M. Jusuf Kalla also attended by Minister of Law and Human Rights (HAM) Andi Mattalatta and Chief of Center Board IPPAT Arry Supratno. 

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