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NBI investigating DAR chief Castriciones for alleged P5M land payoff
Castriciones strongly denies the allegations, and says cases over the issue have been filed against the complainant herself
Recto files bill to write off farmers' debts from CARP
Recto says the amount of farmers debt is 'small compared to the hundreds of billions in private sector loans it had written off over the past 40 years'
Trump dump delights peckish Japanese fish, outrages Twitter
It turns out the US president is merely following his host's lead, as Abe has previously sprinkled out the remains of his box into the pond
Going bananas
Re examining the alternative venture agreements in commercial farms and plantations of Mindanao
Lawmakers want BuCor-Tadeco deal probed over land distribution
The Makabayan bloc says hectares of land at the Davao Prison and Penal Farm were no longer distributed to farmer beneficiaries after the BuCor Tadeco deal was sealed
Coron farmers group wants justice for slain leader
Farmers in Basuanga want the killer of peasant leader Arnel Figueroa jailed Figueroa s murder was caught on video
Agrarian reform chief 'Ka Paeng': Hope for the farmers
From peasant leader to agrarian reform chief Rafael Mariano is now on the other side of the fence Will he make a difference?
Farmers to Duterte: Use iron fist vs 'untouchable' landlords in Negros
Task Force Mapalad farmers urge the president elect to go after landlords holding 76 of untouched lands in Negros Occidental
Hacienda Luisita: The struggle continues
For many Hacienda Luisita residents decades of protest have not given them the justice they seek They continue despite the obstacles in their path in the hopes of getting what belongs to them
DENR Cordillera approves 7,000 land patents
DENR CAR declares it was able to meet its target number of processed and issued land patents for 2015 under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
Understanding land grabbing, land rights in the 21st century
How and why did land grabbing persist in the Philippines in the past years? A special double edition of the Focus Policy Review answers this question
Farmer or landlord?: Whose side is your bishop on?
Eighty one Catholic Church leaders urge the Aquino administration to approve land reform bills How are your priests helping farmers enjoy their rights to land?
74 bishops to Aquino: Don't let land reform die
Catholic leaders including 15 archbishops 59 bishops and 7 church administrators call on President Benigno Aquino III and lawmakers to approve agrarian reform bills
Agrarian reform a must for food security in PH – UN expert
The legislative objective is laudable but the implementation is hindered by various roadblocks Hilal Elver UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food says
'Hacienda Binay' violates agrarian reform – Miriam
Senator Miriam Santiago says her experience as agrarian reform secretary tells her the landowners connived with government officials to spare their properties from the CARP
A letter to the man I knew only in death
Weeks months and years would pass and people will forget about you but hopefully I am not the only one who learned a thing or two from what happened
DAR chief too meek to implement agrarian reform?
The House agrarian reform committee chair says DAR Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes must exercise his political will and use the full force of the law for a successful land reform program
IN PHOTOS: Central Luzon farmers' exodus
Tatay Cardo is one of the 500 other farmers who marched from Central Luzon to Manila for this year s Lakbayan
Lack of support for farmers drives abusive 'aryendo' system
In Hacienda Luisita farmers with no means to make their lands productive are forced to lease out their land to new landlords
Two years on, Luisita land distribution a failure – farmers
Exactly two years after the Supreme Court decision to distribute Hacienda Luisita farmers say the area covered is being reduced by the President s family with the help of the Department of Agrarian Reform
DAR: Luisita farmers in their land by May
The agency is confident it will finish delineating farm lots and installing farmers in their land in the vast estate
DAR: No illegal land conversion in Hacienda Luisita
Tadeco s earth balling and fencing off of land is not illegal land conversion says DAR chief Virgilio De Los Reyes
DAR: CARPER extension not needed
But the department wants Congress to pass a law allowing DAR to issue Notices of Coverage after June 30
Cybercrime ruling creates chilling effect on Luisita farmworkers
Advocates supporting Hacienda Luisista farmworkers are against the Cybercrime law s provision on online libel
SC appoints 3 firms to audit Hacienda Luisita payment
Two firms and a certified public accountant are chosen to perform the panel audit
Mendiola Massacre: 27 years after, the same injustices
Almost 3 decades after the massacre farmers and workers return to the streets to demand elusive justice
Farmers: DAR keeping prime Hacienda Luisita lots
DAR says the 200 300 hectares that farmers want distributed are classified as residential in a court ruling but the agency is checking if these are agricultural
Hacienda Luisita farmers to receive land titles in days
Around 5 800 qualified farmer beneficiaries will be given land titles starting September 30 until mid October
Drilon doubts DAR will meet land distribution targets
There have been overlaps and other inconsistencies in the records of agencies involved in implementing agrarian reform admits the DAR secretary
37 face charges over P200-M agri fund scam
Benhur Luy whistleblower in the current pork barrel scam is one of the respondents in the P200 million agricultural fund case before the Ombudsman
Hacienda Luisita land distribution begins
A first batch of 340 farmers from Barangay Cutcut in Tarlac City received lot allocation certificates Government aims to complete land distribution in August
Will Hacienda Luisita farmers finally get their land?
25 years since the agrarian reform law was passed farmers call the landmark legislation a failure in addressing inequality in land ownership
CARPER at 25: Beyond land distribution
Oxfam looks at the progress made since the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law was passed 25 years ago
29 sugar block farms eyed in VisMin
The block farming scheme aims to make planting fertilization and harvesting more profitable and cost efficient
Inclusive growth? Charter change needed, says MVP
The businessman says limitation on foreign ownership of land in the country keeps many Filipinos in rural areas poor
Roxas grp sells over 1,200 has. for agrarian reform
Publicly listed Roxas and Company Inc RCI disclosed that its board authorized its president to sell as much as 1 212 57 hectares of land to the Department of Agrarian Reform DAR
DAR will fulfill targets despite proposal to extend CARPER
The Department of Agrarian Reform is committed to fulfilling its land distribution targets despite a proposal to extend the agrarian reform program up to 2019 says Malacañang
Eat steak everyday!
A man stricken with Pompe Disease reminds us why we should seize the day
Report card on PNoy: Passing but needs work
President Aquino scores high marks for fighting corruption but is warned against a simplistic approach to inclusive growth
PNoy promises to complete land distribution by 2014
Various farmers groups and advocates who earlier placed their hopes in CARPER are still doubtful about its full implementation
