NATIONAL NETWORK OF AGRARIAN REFORM ADVOCATES - YOUTH
WHO WE ARE
The National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates – Youth or NNARA Youth is a mass organization of youth and students who advocates the plight of the farmers for land, rights, and justice. We create venues for young people from the countryside and cities of the Philippines to learn, support, link arms with, and directly participate in the peasants’ struggle through integration programs and community immersions, research and educational discussions, policy review and advocacy, cultural and propaganda movements, and mass mobilizations
Formed on 1995 by a group of students from UP Manila after and integration program in a peasant community, with the help of national organizations of farmers and advocates, NNARA Youth have since then grew not only in numbers but in echelons of advocacy. Young farmers, fisherfolk, and students in their thousands have since then advanced the banner of peasant advocacy under NNARA Youth throughout the country.
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WHY WE CARE
Land monopoly has plagued the Philippine countryside for centuries. Our farmers are landless and are deprived of economic rights, as well as political rights due to this. The hands that till the land and produce our food continue to tread the path of poverty and destitution.
The current absence of genuine land reform in the country will continue to take its toll not only on the welfare of the rural communities but of the whole country. The issue of nationwide poverty, food insecurity, and agricultural backwardness will continue to prevail if we do not have a clear-cut direction for agricultural development and national industrialization. The soaring prices of basic commodities along with the privatization of social services including education poses various
perils on the youth sector—
especially those coming from the
low and middle-income families. Now is not the time to sit back and hide in our comfort zones while the toiling masses are in need of support. We believe that we, the youth, has an important role of making a stand for the peasants and the Filipino people.
Our dominant assets as youths—our physical strength, creative minds, and wide social connections—will significantly contribute in
informing the public about the
current peasant situation and in advancing the call for a genuinely distributive and thoroughgoing land reform program and social justice.
