Philippines

Issue No : 76  July - September 2010

By Dr. Rene Ofreneo

The Philippines is Southeast Asia’s industrial sick man (barely any transformation since the 1970s) and agricultural failure (a major net importer of agricultural products since 1995). The country’s weak agro-industrial growth is the primary reason for the rapid expansion of the informal economy (employing as much as 2/3 of the labour force) and the country’s continuing dependence on the remittances of its 10 million or so migrant workers, roughly a tenth of the population.

Issue No : 76  July - September 2010

Issue No : 75  April - June 2010

By Ed Cubelo and Tono Haruhi

Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

By Noy Natividad

Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

• Editorial: Globalized agricultural workers: feeding the world, uncertain of their own next meals
• Contract Farming and Riverine Aquaculture - The Realities of the ‘Slave Contract’ and the Risks those Farmers Must Bear
• Struggle of Tea Plantation Workers in North East India
• Pineapple Giant Moves to Unseat Militant Union
• Strengthening the Peasant and Plantation Workers' Movement in North Sumatra