Harassment and threats abound in areas where land grabbing is taking place.
- MindaNews
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13 October 2011
a primer presenting the local situation of oil palm plantations in Mindanao
- KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
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10 October 2011
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.
- Manila Standard
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04 October 2011
The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines
- Bulatlat
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29 September 2011
“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
- Bulatlat
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29 September 2011
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.
- Business World
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26 September 2011
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
- KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
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26 September 2011
"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."
- ALLVOICES
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13 September 2011
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.
- InterAksyon.com
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29 August 2011
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.