Philippines

Farmers’ group doubts benefits of oil palm plantation in Davao
- Davao Today
- 19 June 2014
Philippines farmers' group says proposed 50,000 ha oil palm plantations will profit businessmen at the expense of farmers.
8M ha eyed for oil palm plantations
- Inquirer
- 26 May 2014
Philippines' Environment Secretary Ramon Paje proposes the conversion of some 8 million ha of idle, denuded and unproductive lands across the country into oil palm plantations.
‘MVP’s imminent entry in Luisita to intensify unrest'
- Manila Times
- 22 April 2014
Peasant group KMP warns of intensified landgrabbing and denial of farmers’ rights with the “imminent” entry of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan and PT Indofood in Central Azucarera de Tarlac.
KMP warns Pangilinan’s imminent entry in Luisita to intensify unrest
- APC
- 22 April 2014
two years after Supreme Court decision ordering distribution of Hacienda Luisita, Cojuangcos of Tarlac province still control 6,000-hectare sugar estate. Denial of farmers’ rights with the “imminent” entry of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan.
Peasant leader, family arrested in Hacienda Looc; PH’s haciendero President mocks UN’s 2014 International Year of Family Farming – KMP
- APC
- 16 April 2014
Peasant group described as a mockery of UN-declared International Year of Family Farming the illegal arrest of peasant leader and his family in Hacienda Looc.
Farmers hit land-use conversion in Nasugbu, Batangas, to avoid CARP
- Business Mirror
- 15 April 2014
Farmers express alarm over alleged massive land-use conversion, which targets productive agricultural lands supposed to be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
Philippines: Malaysian firm to turn land around Maguindanao massacre site into plantation
- Inquirer
- 22 Mar 2014
Univex will invest $10 million to convert lands around the site of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre into a banana plantation and agricultural complex
Leftist rebels say responsible for attack on Japanese firm in S. Philippines
- Xinhua
- 23 January 2014
NPA launched the actions against the Sumitomo subsidiary because of its land grabbing and the destructive operations of its pineapple and banana plantations.
Farmers’ economic potential blocked by land grabbing in Asean
- Business Mirror
- 19 January 2014
Countries able to hurdle social and political tensions from land issues progress faster than those hobbled by inequitable land distribution, say activists..
Foreign investors target palm industry in Mindanao
- Philippines News Agency
- 07 January 2014
Palm oil cluster industry Chairman Raul Nuevas said most of these foreign investors are looking for “big contiguous area” of 100,000 ha that they can lease for 100 years.
Ayala Group mulls entry into agri
- Philippines Star
- 19 December 2013
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala says the Hong Kong group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan is still having trouble finding large tracts of land for its planned agriculture investments in the Philippines.
Indofood keen on Luisita sugar mill
- Business Mirror
- 29 October 2013
Indofood is on the lookout to lease and develop parcels of land for large-scale commercial farming.