Philippines

A “black eye to bogus CARP,” farmers say on MVP Group’s 30,000-hectare palm oil plantation in Davao
- KMP
- 05 June 2013
KMP says the 30,000 hectares of land to be leased to Honk Kong-based company “spells land-grabbing” to Davao Oriental farmers.
The Philippines offers Indonesia to open palm oil plantation
- Republika
- 01 June 2013
Government of Philippines offers Indonesian state-owned plantations company BUMN to develop palm oil plantations in Mindanao on an area of 120,000 ha.
Group opposes entry of Taiwan’s agribusiness giant at Apeco
- Business Mirror
- 27 May 2013
Nan Tsan plans to engage in fish processing as its priority undertaking, for which it will lease a seaside area of 1,000 square meters, and is eyeing 10 hectares of land within the ecozone for the cultivation of papaya
MVP Group eyes Davao farm
- PhilStar
- 22 May 2013
Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd’s agribusiness unit PT Indofood is eyeing 30,000 hectares of land in Davao Oriental, Philippines, for palm oil production.
First Pacific’s new interest: PH agri sector
- Malaya
- 02 May 2013
Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd. will work with the Department of Agriculture to identify lands in the Philippine for the production of cash crops, hoping to eventually control over 200,000ha.
Univanich Palm Oil expands into Philippines
- The Nation
- 01 May 2013
Univanich Palm Oil, one of the Thailand's leading palm-oil producers and its largest exporter of crude palm oil, is expanding into Asean with its first investment in the Philippines.
Acaparamiento de tierras para plantaciones de palma aceitera en Filipinas
- Boletín WRM
- 30 April 2013
Además de la alarmante expansión de las minas de níquel en la provincia de Palawan, los pueblos indígenas y los agricultores de los llanos se enfrentan ahora a las amenazas que plantea el desarrollo de la palma aceitera.
Philippines: Oil palm expansion is tearing apart indigenous peoples lives
- InterContinental Cry
- 27 Mar 2013
The bulk of oil palm operations are being carried out by the Palawan Palm & Vegetable Oil Mills Inc. and its sister company Agumil Philippines Inc., which were established through joint ventures between Filipino, Singaporean and Malaysian investors.
Rice producer in talks with First Pacific
- Business World
- 21 Mar 2013
SL Agritech Corp plans to establish a 2,000-3,000 hectare commercial rice plantation in Iloilo this year, a top company official said yesterday, in what could involve a joint venture with Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd.
Laguna Lake fishers at the mercy of 'development'
- PAN AP
- 12 October 2012
Today, Laguna Lake is considered by many fisherfolks as a dying lake. Its ecosystem has been destroyed by the government's forced prevention of the entry of seawater, pollution from factories and cities surrounding the lake, and continuing reclamation and development projects under the government's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme.
Another tribe leader slain in Misamis Oriental
- Bulatlat
- 04 October 2012
Earlier, Gilbert Paborada was warned by a representative of a palm oil plantation “to stop opposing or he would regret what might happen to his life.”
ENOUGH is ENOUGH: Attacks on IPs escalate, another Indigenous leader killed in Misamis Oriental!
- RMR-NMR
- 03 October 2012
Gilbert Paborada, Chairperson of PANGALASAG, an IP organization resisting the oil palm expansion of A. Brown in Opol, Misamis Oriental, Philippines, was shot dead this afternoon.