Task Force Mapalad, Inc. (TFM) is a national federation of farmers, farm workers and individualadvocates working for agrarian reformand rural development. Itassists farmer organizations through community-based organizing,campaigns for land tenure and productivityimprovement, productionand technology support, policy advocacy and research, andorganizational strengthening. Beginning with 500 farm workers from16 Negros Occidental haciendas in 2001, TFM now has 43,074 farmer-members from 8,226 estates covering a total of 89,850hectares. It works in nine provinces — Cagayan Valley, Nueva Ecija,Eastern Batangas, and Oriental Mindoro in Luzon; Negros Occidental,Negros Oriental, and Iloilo in the Visayas; and Davao Oriental andBukidnon in Mindanao. TFM has helped improve the quality of life ofthe beneficiaries. Their new roles has enabled them to ease hungerand increase incomes and has likewise empowered them to plan theirown economic activities and eventually take part in developmentundertakings of their villages. The transformation of the beneficiaries’socio-economic roles – from mere landless farm workers to newlandowners and managers – have enabled them to collectivelyaddress and improve food security, purchasing power, education.

The overall goal of the project is to enhance and sharpen the leadership and communication skills of individual rightsholders,
Senior Citizens and Youth, and strengthen their organisations to be an active initiator of activities and creative ways to advocate and
claim for their rights, facilitate linkages to access resources, and manage their own programs to improve their quality of life.