It’s a moral obligation to keep CARP alive

CARP is the 27-year-old Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

One of the reasons up to 60 percent of the people of our country remain very poor is the failure of land reform. Some 90 percent of the Filipino poor are in the agricultural sector. The unjust conditions suffered by our farmers, some of whom are landless peasants who should own the land they and their grandparents have tilled, accounts for the failure of our economy to be as prosperous as those of Thailand, Malaysia and even Communist Vietnam.