“The Philippines is among the top five countries in all of Asia in terms of the number of land acquisition deals made in the past 20 years. Even more alarming, as of 2021, there are potentially 3.6 million hectares — about 58 percent of all the arable land in the Philippines — that are under negotiation for potential deals….The lack of transparency raises concern that lands are being converted from their proper use at a rapid rate. A tool exists to correct this — a National Land Use Code— but successive Congresses for nearly 30 years have been unwilling to pass it.”
Read more here: https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/06/29/opinion/editorial/pass-the-land-use-act/1849098
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