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On the 25th of January 2010 the BKF & BKS local committee organized a rally in Bhurungamari sub-district of northern Kurigram district. BKF president Badrul Alam was the chief guest of that landless rally. Landless peasants are trying to build up a strong movement to occupy a big water-body in Sonarhat area in that sub-district. In this sub-district BKF and BKS members occupied railway abandoned land at 16th of December 2004 and almost 3000 landless families are living there as a result of that occupation.

On January 20th, 2010 Bangladesh Krishok Federation and Bangladesh Kishani Sabha jointly organized a rally and procession on the issue of Climate Change and Khas Land. The Barisal district committee of BKF and BKS organized the rally in Barisal divisional city and hundreds of landless peasants attended the rally and procession.
There were two slogans in the program: "System Change, not Climate Change" and "Khas Land to the landless". The President of BKF, Badrul Alam, and the President of BKS, Khurshida Akter, were the important speakers at this rally.

On January 22, 2010 local committee of BKF&BKS organized a human chain in Sador sub-district of Patuakhali district demanding distributing khas land among the landless. In the Mathi Bhanga Bazar some hundreds of landless peasants attended the human chain and demanded to distribute Khas Land among the landless immediately.

Peasants led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) commemorated the anniversary of PD 27, the bogus land reform program of the Marcos dictatorship, on October 21, by a week-long series of protests and a relief mission to Central Luzon.

KMP said that the October peasant campaign would deal mainly on the call for Genuine Land Reform and the immediate need of peasants distraught by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng for relief and rehabilitation. They have also called for justice for the victims of human rights abuses under the Macapagal-Arroyo regime.

Press Release: Lok Sanjh Foundation, October 26 2009

On October 15, 2009, the Lok Sanjh Foundation and the Pakistan Dehqan Assembly organized a conference on rice and the food crisis, focusing on small farmer livelihoods. More than 600 farmers, tenants, landless workers and partner organizations from different parts of the Sheikhupura region participated in the event, which was part of the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) People's Year of Rice Action (YORA).