Mining operations have also caused deterioration of the environment, resulting to worsened health conditions, affected livelihoods, degraded water quality, decreased agricultural production and fish catch, and communities’ greater vulnerability to the effects of natural disasters. On the other hand, a moratorium on mass-scale tree-cutting issued in 2011 effectively makes cases of corporate logging illegal (EJ Atlas, 2018). A log ban has also been issued in 2017. Despite this, ANGOC has recorded six forestry investments encroaching upon ancestral domains from 2017 to June 2018. These cases are either ongoing or have been halted with potential for resurgence (Salomon, 2018). Transgressing land rights of agricultural farmers. Of the 193 investment land conflicts that were recorded by ANGOC from January 2017 to June 2018, 52 percent were plantation investments covering no less than 118 thousand hectares of land. These agribusiness investments were characterized by the production of a single type of crop (mono-cropping), thus crippling the food security of the community (Salomon, 2018). Many of these investments benefit the investors more than the farmers they engage in businesses with. The unfair terms stipulated in contracts and lack of information provided to farmers lead to short-lived benefits, eventual loss of control over the land, and large sums of debt (FAO, 2016). Many cases of lease agreements involved investors paying farmers rent lower than the amortization needed for the farmers to sustain their ownership over the land. In some instances, this has led farmers to surrender their landownership to the agribusiness company. In cases of growership contracts, farmers have been unable to meet production quotas that have been set too high, and are sometimes penalized for such. Furthermore, some growership agreements do not take into account costs of production and prevailing marketprices, leading to minimal gains for farmers involved in these contracts (Salomon 2018; FAO, 2016). In 2017, the Philippines has been classified as the second deadliest country in the world and the deadliest country in Asia for environmental rights defenders (Global Witness, 2018; Cox, 2018; Watts, 2018). 41 percent of the killings that Global Witness recorded in the Philippines in 2017 were related to agribusinesses (Global Witness, 2018). Also taking into account Global Witness’s data, ANGOC recorded 431 incidents of human rights violations (including 61 killings) related to land and resource conflicts from 2017 to June 2018 (Salomon, 2018). ANGOC and KPA 73