Philippines

Indigenous organization under constant harassment and threats
- KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
- 26 September 2011
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
Group says US desire to own land in PH behind fresh bid on charter change
- ALLVOICES
- 13 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."
Groups told Aquino: Don't lease Philippine lands to China
- ALLVOICES
- 30 August 2011
By Gang Gong Li, Gerry Albert Corpuz and Portnip Pakangcharap
China eyes agricultural land lease pacts with Philippines
- InterAksyon.com
- 29 August 2011
China is keen on entering into lease agreements with the Philippines to develop unused land for agriculture, says Chinese Ambassador to Manila.
South Korea to expand overseas farming on rising food costs
- Bloomberg
- 10 July 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.
Peasants from poor countries shout ‘Fight for land against land grabbing, landlordism, state terrorism, imperialism’
- Bulatlat
- 07 July 2011
Peasant leaders and agrarian reform advocates joined their Filipinos counterparts in the first “International Speak Out Against Global Land grabbing” held in Quezon City.
Chinese agri firms search Luzon for business partners
- GMA News
- 07 July 2011
Fifteen private firms from mainland China -- including Beidahuang Group -- are in the Philippines looking for investment partners in the agriculture sector
Foreign land deals: global land grabbing?
- IBON
- 16 June 2011
The Philippines is among the leading target countries for land deals despite provisions in the Constitution barring foreigners from owning land.
International group probes alleged land-grab by foreign firms
- Inquirer
- 06 June 2011
An international fact-finding team is in the country to investigate the alleged land-grabbing by Philippine, Japanese and Taiwanese companies of some 11,000 hectares from indigenous peoples in Isabela to build the biggest bio-ethanol project in the Philippines.
Sokors eye 100,000 has. of idle land
- Malaya
- 27 April 2011
The South Koreans are looking for as much as 100,000 in idle agricultural land in the Philippines that can be planted to crops for domestic consumption and for export.
Philippine rebels accuse Japan fruit exporter of land grabbing
- Mindanao Examiner
- 12 April 2011
Philippine communist rebels on Tuesday accused a Japanese subsidiary of grabbing lands from local farmers in Mindanao.
Bridging Arab world's alarming food gap
- Gulf News
- 03 April 2011
The UAE has purchased thousands of acres of arable land in Sudan to grow products for the home market, while Bahraini investors help meet demand in the kingdom from farmland bought in Thailand and the Philippines.