Tag: landgrabbing
IBON Statement on the ASEAN Energy Business Forum
Oktubre 6, 2026
The most basic issue is who controls energy development, who benefits from it, and who pays the costs. This is why the energy question is not simply about the ASEAN Energy Business Forum’s narrow-minded fixation on making energy projects more profitable.
Energy advocates press for nationalized power system as ASEAN energy investors gather
Oktubre 6, 2026
Despite decades of privatization, Filipinos continue to face high electricity rates and energy insecurity, while private energy corporations expand their control over the sector.
MTerra: The dark side of solar farm projects
Setyembre 16, 2026
For all its promises of clean energy transition, the MTerra Solar Project exposes where the government’s priorities lie: not with the farmers who feed the nation.
Peste
Oktubre 16, 2025
Hindi ko napigilan ang pangingilabot — sa laki ng kumpanyang iyon, literal nilang ginawang pestisidyo ang mga manggagawa. Mano-mano. Isa-isa.
Candoni: Gone forever?
Oktubre 16, 2025
The uplands of Candoni are now being devastated by the Hacienda Asia Plantation, Inc. (HAPI), a palm oil company of the big conglomerate DM Consunji Inc.
Why farmers in SJDM are under attack
Hulyo 5, 2024
Farming communities in San Jose Del Monte have become vital sources of agricultural products for Metro Manila. They have established their residence, economy, and self-sustaining organizations over the years. But trouble would always come to this seeming paradise.
Less land for food
Marso 30, 2018
While foreign land grabbing intensifies across the globe, the concentration of Philippine agricultural lands in the hands of oligarchs amid sham land distribution is becoming even more rampant, depriving the tillers of the fruits of the land they made productive, and threatening the country’s food security.
Land reform, starting point of rural development
Enero 20, 2017
“Agricultural development should first focus on real land reform. This ensures that subsequent farm support will increase rural incomes and improve the livelihoods of the majority poor peasantry, expand the domestic market, and create a surplus for reinvestment in national industry. These are also the conditions for greater linkages between agriculture and industry, including the […]
