World Food Summit Five Years Later: More Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger

Five years after the World Food Summit, the Philippine peasantry’s assessment of its achievements is definitely negative. Despite the good intentions uttered by the delegations five years ago, poor farmers were further disempowered and subjected to increasing exploitation. Poverty, hunger and landlessness, the perennial scourges of poor farmers since the time of
colonization, have unceasingly worsened.