The Philippines consists of 7,107 islands covering 300,000 square kilometers (30 million hectares), including 298,170 square kilometers of land and 1,830 square kilometers of water. Land distribution is highly skewed, and much of the land is moderately or severely eroded.
24 November 2020
In a new study, researchers say that land inequality is rising in most countries. Worse, new measures and analysis proves that land inequality is significantly higher than previously recorded, with data reporting a 41 percent increase compared to traditional census data. The report, Uneven Ground:…
19 November 2020
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Thursday launched the P24.625 billion World Bank-funded Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project, which aims to improve land tenure security and stabilize property rights of 1,140,735 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs)…
10 November 2020
Coming from a farming family, Danny Hizon, 69, proprietor of Danizon Farms, says, “Farming, you could say, is in my blood.” Growing up, he was surrounded by the rice and vegetable fields in a remote village in San Rafael, Bulacan. During his childhood, his grandfather tried to teach him how to farm…
Value: $520,000.00
Donors: Belgian Development Agency
Value: $13,200,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $4,555,000.00
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Value: $10,300,000.00
Donors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Value: $4,300,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $920,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
7 September 2018
FRONT LINE DEFENDERS has documented 821 human rights defenders (HRDs) who have been killed in the four years since we started producing an annual global list in cooperation with national and international NGOs. Seventy-nine percent of this total came from six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala,…
