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Fisherfolk, CSOs to raise the issue of DENR order to dismantle fisheries structures in Cavite in the Global People’s Summit on Food Systems

September 23, 2021 pamalakayaweb Image, News Release

While monopoly agro-corporations are lobbying at the United Nations for more corporate control over the global agriculture and food systems, here in the Philippines, the producing sector is facing the worse and more primitive issue of outright destruction of the community-based food system and displacement from livelihood, all in the name of neoliberal privatization of bay areas, for super-profits of real estate firms colluding with local and national bureaucrat capitalists.

LGUs urged to defy DENR order vs tahong and talaba pens in Manila Bay

September 20, 2021 pamalakayaweb News Release

“The local executives in Cavite are morally, politically, and constitutionally obliged to protect the welfare of tens of thousands of fisherfolk who are deemed to lose their source of livelihood courtesy of the national government’s directive against fishing structures in Manila Bay,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA national chairperson said in a statement.

PAMALAKAYA’s tahong and talaba growers storm DENR ahead of its demolition order

September 6, 2021 pamalakayaweb Image, News Release

“Rehabilitating Manila Bay should be to restore its marine resources for the benefit of small fisherfolk. But the DENR’s thrust says otherwise. The government’s rehabilitation program has brought fear among the fishing and coastal population because its aim is to actually destroy our livelihood and displace us from communities,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said during the protest.