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By: Manolo Serapio Jr and Enrico Dela Cruz
Date: 1 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Philippines will review all mines operating in the country, the new mining minister said on Friday, as the committed environmentalist vowed to determine whether the industry is hurting the…
By: Ron Corben & Bryan Lynn
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: VOA
An international human rights organization says Southeast Asia is facing increasing conflicts and violence over land grab activity. A “land grab” relates to taking land quickly, forcefully and often illegally.
In this case, the…
By: Artemio A. Dumlao
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Philstar.com
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – At least a hundred indigenous women and men in their traditional attire braved the monsoon rains here as they marched down Session Road to mark World Indigenous Peoples Day and to call attentions to life-…
By: Mong Palatino
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Global Voices
Tiempo Muerto, or “The Dead Season,” visits sugar plantations across the Philippines, when many farmers struggle with hunger and deprivation because there’s no work during this off-milling period of the year. The season can be so brutal…
Filipino Fishers Living in a Scenic Cove Fight to Save Their Homes From Demolition and Land Grabbing ()
By: Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Global Voices
At least 353 families in the fishing and farming community in the scenic Patungan Cove in Maragondon, Cavite, just two hours south from the Philippines’ capital Manila, are facing demolition to pave way for an eco-tourism…
By: Bryan Thomas
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Diplomaticourier
An Emerging Philippine Case Study
Throughout human history, the contact between developed economies and indigenous people in undeveloped areas has created tension, and often tragedy. Today the challenge of creating a positive…
By: Kieran Cooke
Date: October 5th 2016
Source: Middle East Eye
After food costs spike, Saudis spent billions buying up farm land around the world. Who benefits exactly and can the spree continue?
hey control rice farms in Ethiopia, Sudan and the Philippines, cattle ranches in California and…
By: Barbara Mae Dacanay
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Gulf News
Manila: Twelve farmers fighting for land reform were arrested and have remained in prison based on a complaint of a landlord in central Philippines at the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte who has revived…
Date: November 5th 2016
Source: Philippine Information Agency
DAVAO CITY, Nov. 5 -- The rural sector composed of stakeholders and rural experts met here for a two-day conference to craft recommendations on rural development for inclusion in the 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan (PDP). DAR…
By: Chino S. Leyco
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: Manila Bulletin
Davao City – President Rodrigo R. Duterte will come up with a “modified” executive order governing the moratorium on land conversion, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) announced yesterday.
At the Philippine…
By: Angelo Caballero
Date: November 16th 2016
Source: ABS News
DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.
The agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), who came from…
By: Frinston Lim
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: Inquirer.net
TAGUM CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Monday reinstated the ownership of the 145-hectare land to the 159 farmers under the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Inc. (Marbai) in Barangay Madaum here.
The…