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Sustainable agri deserves center stage at COP22
Agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, is the sector most threatened by climate change. At the same time, the agricultural sectors produce a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The transformation of the ...
- November 10, 2016
Support for anti-illegal fishing pact sought
The Food and Agriculture Organization Wednesday urged governments to implement a landmark treaty against illegal fishing, saying rapid action was needed to ensure that its implementation was effective. FAO director general ...
- July 14, 2016
Feeding fishers for life through boat distribution program
Zamboanga City—Sixty-year-old Badjao fisherman Munib Araa always dreamed of a boat he can call his own but he was too poor to buy one. His story and those of other Badjao fishermen have brought to life the saying that ...
- September 24, 2016
China trains fishing militia to venture into Spratlys
The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan Island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into ...
- May 2, 2016
Fishers doubt her stance on coastal ecotourism
While praising her for her standing steadfastly against mining, a militant group has urged incoming Environment Secretary Regina Lopez to also oppose ecotourism projects that displace fisherfolk from their communities.
- June 28, 2016
Duterte's China
It is possible that the seeming inconstancy in the Duterte approach to the territorial and maritime conflict in the South China Sea is strategic. What does it mean when one day he talks about shelving our claims aside in ...
- May 31, 2016
China: new satellite to protect its sea bases
A newly launched satellite will help China protect its maritime interests, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Thursday, as Manila and Tokyo urged Beijing to respect maritime law and security, and the rule of ...
- August 12, 2016
China will be the loser–Yasay
Unless it acknowledges the ruling of the arbitral tribunal against its territorial claims in the West Philippine Sea, China will emerge as the “loser” in its sea dispute with the Philippines, Foreign Secretary Perfecto ...
- August 31, 2016
Marinduque town fears lingering mine effects
The sight bluish green water flowing through the Boac River in Marinduque province has raised suspicions of a high level of acid seeping from mine wastes left in the defunct Marcopper mining site. But Roland de Jesus, ...
- September 2, 2016
Crab fattening pushed to ensure better yield
There is one word crab vendors do not want their merchandise to be associated with: payat (skinny). The label sticks like glue. Meat shops are given some leeway whenever they sell a fatty slab of pork, but customers remember ...
- March 2, 2016