Philippines

The Russian investors, accompanied by the Agriculture Secretary of the Philippines, inspected an area in Barangay Oring, Maguindanao where they identified 7,000 hectares for banana plantations.

Local leaders celebrate decision by New Zealand's overseas investment regulator to turn down application by Tegel Group Holdings to buy land for chicken farm. They say it's time to boost smaller-scale farmers, not back foreign-owned companies.

Front Line Defenders identifies the root causes of violence in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines, where more than 80% of the human rights defenders killed globally over the last four years were murdered.

Villagers in a southern Philippine island of Mindanao massacred amid conflict between indigenous community and coffee plantation

KMP chair Danilo Ramos says the President and the head of the Department of Agriculture (DA) “got some explaining to do” as to the extent of agricultural lands being compromised in foreign agri-business deals signed in recent state visits.

The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister instantly offered 100,000 hectares for planting even starting tomorrow, but can develop easily 2 million hectares in government lands for rice farming with irrigation

The Philippines will sign this week a government-to-government agreement with Papua New Guinea allowing Filipino companies to produce rice on an area of about 1 million hectares within five years.

PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and Agriculture Minister Benny Allan have promised the Philippines government at least one million hectares of land in Papua New Guinea for Filipino farmers to grow rice.

Video of the mostly English-language session of a CFDT seminar featuring Dario Novellino and indigenous community representatives of the Coalition Against Land Grabbing operating in Palawan, the Philippines.

En organisant un colloque à Paris le 16 janvier, la CFDT souhaite ouvrir une réflexion sur les moyens de stopper l’extension des surfaces dédiées à cette culture et promouvoir un changement de modèle.

“Alarmingly, global and regional developments that create conditions for greater land and resource grabbing continue to emerge and fuel social conflicts and unrest in rural areas.”