One land, many generations – A snapshot of land conflict: past, present, and future – 2025 Philippine Land and Resource Conflict Monitoring Report

The 2025 Land and Resource Conflict Monitoring (LRCM) Report shows that many land conflicts in the Philippines continue to rise and a large number of them remain unresolved for decades, exposing weak enforcement of laws that should be protecting smallholder farmers, indigenous peoples, and fisherfolk. A total of 281 cases of ongoing land and resource conflicts in 2025 were covered, involving 796,586.68 hectares and affecting 109,208 households. It calls for urgent collective action to ensure rights-based, participatory and accountable land conflict resolution.

Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia, actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development.