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
- Business Mirror
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27 Mar 2018
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.
- Business World
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07 Mar 2018
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.
- PNGExposed
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22 February 2018
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.”
From Cambodia to the Philippines, women land rights defenders face increasing levels of violence and intimidation
Deux militants qui enquêtaient sur des accusations d’accaparement de terres de paysans par un maire de l’île de Negros ont été abattus aux Philippines, ont déclaré mercredi les autorités, aggravant le «climat d’impunité» dénoncé par les ONG.
- Libération
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29 November 2017
With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.
- Mongabay
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07 September 2017
With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.
- Mongabay
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01 September 2017
Davao City Investment Promotions Center (DCIPC) chief Lemuel Ortonio met with a group of Japanese investors to discuss available areas for investment in Davao thriving agriculture sector.
- Manila Bulletin
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10 August 2017