Many of the landless in the Philippines are tenant farmers, often doing hard labor cutting sugercane for large landowners who usually demand two-thirds of the crop in exchange for the use of the land. The hungry peasants yearn for land reform. They consider the landowner's exploitation to be a form of slavery and take comfort in scriptures telling how God led his people out slavery in Egypt into the land of Canaan. They consider land reform to be all through the Bible and quote scriptures such as the creation story that says God created all things for all people. And land is a source of life just as much as the air is and the water is.
Nobody goes out and claims that they own the water out there.
The movement for revolutionary reform is immense in the Philippines. The organizers call themselves communists, which sounds like an inappropriate name since their movement is rooted in religion. Some of the organizers are for supporting Filipino capitalists. And they believe the distribution of land should be free. They would make the immense Del Monte and Dole farms and into state-owned farms.