TFM (Task Force Mapalad), Farmer Representative
Lanie is a veteran land rights campaigner and has been instrumental in key triumphs of peasant movements for agrarian reform in the Philippines. As one of the founders of Task Force Mapalad, a national federation of farmers, farm workers, and individual advocates working for agrarian reform and rural development in the Philippines; she continues to empower smallholder farmers to remain steadfast in claiming and protecting their access and control over land, ensuring that no farmer and farmworker is left landless. It is crucial now more than ever that peoples' land movements (such as the ILC) stay true to our reason for being-- that is to ensure that land rights remain at the center, and that farmers' and peasants' voices gain prominence through our work. That it is only through the power of the peoples' will and resolve that land rights campaigns emerge victorious.