Philippines

Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.

Report of an International Fact-Finding Mission was held in Tingalan and Bagocboc, Mindanao, Philippies, to investigate complaints of landgrabbing received from a local indigenous peoples group.

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A report entitled "The Real Trespassers: Landgrabbing in the Name of Palm Oil in Southern Philippines" that chronicles the findings of the International Fact-Finding Mission in Opol has been released by PAN AP.

This is in relation to the land grabbing issue in the municipality of Opol in Misamis Oriental, Southern Philippines

Intensive use of land for food exports and biofuel production must not come at the expense of human rights in Southeast Asia, the United Nations warned.

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Asian Peasant Coalition lambasted Nakeen Corporation, a company that operates a palm oil plantation in Misamis Oriental, for spreading lies and deception during their press conference held on May 17, 2012.

Dar Al-Maskukat Trading of Riyadh has requested a long-term land lease from the Philippines of up to 200,000 hectares of rain-fed government land and private farms to produce rice for the Saudi market.

Their land and means of livelihood were taken away from them, their culture trampled upon, all in the name of public-private partnerships and foreign corporate interests.

In the Philippines, Akbayan Party-list Representatives Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao and Walden Bello are pushing for a bill that regulates large scale foreign investments on land.

Southeast Asia has become ever more appealing to investors from both within and beyond the region seeking to include agriculture in their portfolios.

The Philippines and Qatar signed 4 bilateral agreements and one private sector agreement seen to boost cooperation in investments, tourism, fisheries and the legal field.