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IRRI TOLD TO GET OUT OF ASIA!

Week of Rice Action culminated in street protests

By Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano

Laguna, Philippines--- “IRRI out of Asia!” This was the resounding call of more than 1,000 Filipino farmers that trooped in front of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) headquarters on April 3 to protest its’ 47th anniversary and to culminate the highly successful Asia-wide Week of Rice Action (WORA) led by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP).

children also took to the streets