2 Norwegians say company guards harassed them in Oil Palm Plantation
- MindaNews
- 13 October 2011
Harassment and threats abound in areas where land grabbing is taking place.
Harassment and threats abound in areas where land grabbing is taking place.
a primer presenting the local situation of oil palm plantations in Mindanao
Black River Capital Partners Fund (Food) LP, a fund managed by the private equity arm of US agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, has offered to acquire 28.11 percent of Philippine fruit and vegetable grower AgriNurture Inc. for $30.4 million.
The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines
“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
Lease contracts covering millions of hectares of agricultural lands signed by the Philippines Department of Agriculture with foreign entities during the Arroyo administration are currently being reviewed to determine if they are in accord with the current administration’s food security plan.
The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
"The desire of foreign monopoly capitalists in the US to acquire lands in PH is an open book. It is not a best kept secret. The monopolists in the US also want 100 percent ownership of other profitable sectors in the Philippines including but not limited to mining, eco-tourism, energy, public utilities, mass media, oil and gas, health and education."
By Gang Gong Li, Gerry Albert Corpuz and Portnip Pakangcharap
China is keen on entering into lease agreements with the Philippines to develop unused land for agriculture, says Chinese Ambassador to Manila.
Korea wants to secure a total of 380,000 hectares of overseas farmland by 2018, the agriculture ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. Priority countries include the Philippines, Cambodia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Russia.
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