How to starve indigenous communities

(NOTE: The foregoing article is featured in the 09 April 2008 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer)
By Maurice Malanes/Philippine Daily Inquirer 
BAGUIO CITY – The Igorot people now acknowledge their ancestors’ long-term foresight in ensuring the food security of succeeding generations by carving rice terraces, even in tough, challenging terrain, in the Cordillera mountains. READ ON.

Originally posted May 25, 2008 by Keystone