inhabitants; Misamis Oriental (excluding Cagayan de Oro City) with 889,000; Lanao Del Norte (excluding Iligan City) with 676,000; Misamis Occidental with 602,000; and Camiguin with the smallest population at 88,000.1 Northern Mindanao is the eighth most populous region in the Philippines and the second in Mindanao (after Davao Region) based on the 2015 census.  Its major urban area is  Metro Cagayan de Oro,  which includes Cagayan de Oro City and some municipalities and cities of Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon.  The region’s population density in 2010 was 210 persons per square kilometer. The total population of Region X accounted for about 4.6 percent of the Philippine population in 2015. Land Ownership and Tenure in Northern Mindanao Official PSA Statistics in 2000 show that 29.23 percent of the total households in Northern Mindanao region owned agricultural land, of which 3.31 percent of households acquired the land through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) while 25.92 percent of the households secured land through other means. On the other hand, 17 percent of the total households in the region were in possession of residential land other than where the households currently resided and another two percent owned land other than residential and agricultural. Land Tenure and Use Community Based Forest Management As of 2015, 294  Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) Agreements have been awarded in the region involving 20,922.005  hectares of forestland, and benefitting  28,122  households and  294  people’s organizations.   The CBFM is a government strategy, which “gives the management of forests back to the people.”  It offers long-term security of tenure to partner-communities and promotes an integrated approach to sustainable forest resource management.2 1 2 Philippine Statistics Office: 2015 DENR R-X Official Data ANGOC and PAFID 9