The ORRISSA team with two farmer leaders (Mr. Arjun Dura tribal farmer from Malkangiri and Mr. Damburudhar Kanhar, Kondh tribal farmer from Kandhamal district of Orissa) travelled to the Negros region of Philippines where the MASIPAG network had enabled the agriculture labourers and small farmers to own their land, promoted ecological farming to protect them from the exploitations of the money lenders and that of the market promoting high cost intensive agriculture from 19.10.2009 to 25. 10.2009. The team had visited the NGO partner PDG, the farmer fields, back up farm and the training centre all engaged in promoting agrarian reform as the right of small and marginal farm labour households. The team learned about the abject exploitations faced by scores of the farm labourer families and experienced their struggle to own a piece of land to cultivate food badly required by their families. The visiting team also exchanged seeds.