Philippines

'I tended to the bodies': attacked by the Philippine army
- Guardian
- 23 July 2018
Villagers in a southern Philippine island of Mindanao massacred amid conflict between indigenous community and coffee plantation
Group wants data on extent of agri lands compromised in foreign agri-business deals
- Davao Today
- 13 June 2018
KMP chair Danilo Ramos says the President and the head of the Department of Agriculture (DA) “got some explaining to do” as to the extent of agricultural lands being compromised in foreign agri-business deals signed in recent state visits.
Who owns Australia’s farms? Nation’s biggest landholders of 2018
- Weekly Times
- 23 May 2018
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.
On Piñol’s idea to rise with rice in Papua New Guinea
- Business Mirror
- 27 Mar 2018
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
Papua New Guinea rice-planting deal expected this week
- Business World
- 07 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.
O’Neill and Allan stitch up another huge land grab
- PNGExposed
- 22 February 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.
Is sustainable palm oil possible?
- CFDT
- 08 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.
[Colloque] L’huile de palme durable est-elle possible ?
- CFDT
- 19 December 2017
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.
Philippines tops year of land-rights killings
- Reuters
- 16 December 2017
“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.”
Women land defenders in Asia need more protection as violence rises - rights groups
- Reuters
- 10 December 2017
From Cambodia to the Philippines, women land rights defenders face increasing levels of violence and intimidation
Deux militants des droits de l’Homme tués aux Philippines
- Libération
- 29 November 2017
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.
Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say
- Mongabay
- 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.