The Philippines is the fifth largest borrower ... corporations and elite families who lost land in the Philippine land reform to regain title if poor farmers begin selling small parcels carved ...

More than 1,200 farmers from eight Iloilo towns are now free from land debt burdens under the New Agrarian Emancipation Act.

It was President Aquino’s mother, Corazon Aquino, who made land reform the centrepiece of her 1986 campaign for the presidency. Congress passed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law in 1988, and in ...

NASUGBU, BATANGAS – The Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB) awarded Roxas and Company, Inc. (RCI) ...

What hides behind the opaque language and convoluted logic of the decision is the final scrapping of even the most limited land reform in the Philippines. The 6,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita sugar ...

Dhon Daganasol, another Katarungan farmer leader based in Carigara town in Leyte province of the central Philippines, said land reform implementation is crucial for farmers. “The distribution of land ...

including in land governance reform; addressing school classroom overcrowding; and airport development. Since 2016, one focus of Sidel’s research has been the politics of transportation and ...

Land reform was at the time a roiling issue in ... Later that decade, Mr. Prosterman was in the Philippines when he was approached by a coconut plantation owner with a gun strapped to his leg.