Task Force Mapalad, Inc (TFM) is a national federation of farmers, farm workers and individual advocates working for agrarian reformand rural development. It assists farmer organizations through community-based organizing,campaigns for land tenure and productivity improvement, production and technology support, policy advocacy and research, and organizational 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 89,850 hectares. 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 and Bukidnon in Mindanao. TFM has helped improve the quality of life ofthe beneficiaries. Their new roles has enabled them to ease hunger and increase incomes and has likewise empowered them to plan their own economic activities and eventually take part in development undertakings of their villages. The transformation of the beneficiaries’ socio-economic roles – from mere landless farm workers to new landowners and managers – have enabled them to collectively address and improve food security, purchasing power, education.