The AMIHAN-National Federation of Peasant Women aims to empower peasant women through alternative development policies and strategies.It advocates equal opportunities and justice for all and strongly condemns human rights violations committed particularly againts peasant women. It is also particular in the developments concerning agrarian reform. The term AMIHAN describes the southeastern wind during harvest season that characterizes peasant women as "gentle but tough,tender but tenacious." It has 32 provincial sectors in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
