land use conversion

Gov’t priorities enrich a few and destroy the environment–IBON

November 25, 2020

News | The Philippine government’s bias for profit-seeking interests even at the expense of the environment are the root cause of the logging, quarrying and land conversion in Rizal and Cagayan provinces that have caused such devastating floods.

Less land for food

March 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.

What Ever Happened To Change Is Coming?

July 24, 2017

Click to view video What Ever Happened to Contractualization in PH? Click here to view video What Ever Happened To “Occupy Oligarch Lands”? View video “What Ever Happened To Oligarchs Shouldn’t Get Rich At People’s Expense?” View video What Ever Happened To Land Use Conversion Moratorium? View video What Ever Happened To “Am Answerable Only […]

Addressing the rampage of land use conversion

April 27, 2017

The land-to-the-tiller clamour mounts. This, amid the recent spate of farmers’ killings and other forms of military attacks against peasant communities nationwide. These human rights violations have escalated even after both panels of the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) have acknowledged in the on-going peace talks the country’s agrarian problem […]