In the Philippines, only five percent of farmers own forty-five percent of the country's agricultural lands. Seventy percent of farmers remain landless.
Landlessness is the root cause of the poverty and hardship of peasants, said the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), a national peasant movement.
KMP sees the feudal state of Filipino peasants as a result of landlessness, the failure of government land distribution programs, and the escape of landholders from landholder programs.
