Organized farmers know their rights, and can deal with the government much more effectively. Organizing federations of POs. Federations build social capital in rural areas, often desperately needed where rural communities have been dominated economically, politically and socially by a handful of landowning families. Waging campaigns at the local and national levels to assist in the difficult process of receiving land.
Public pressure is often imperative in agrarian reform.
Advocating better policies for agrarian reform and ancestral domains. Provides a mechanism for landless farmers and indigenous peoples to articulate their needs with government. Our partners come from diverse political orientations, backgrounds and ideologies. Many are composed of highly dedicated people tracing their roots in social development work from the Martial Law era. All of them believe in the importance of building capacities of landless farmers to make effective claims over the land they till, empowering the farmers instead of doing everything for them.