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A collaborative province-led agriculture and fisheries extension model
Unfortunately, the rural extension was weakened by the well-intentioned Local Government Code of 1991 which devolved agricultural extension to the local government units (LGUs). True, devolution allowed for more democratic ...
- March 11, 2018
US-BFAR partner to improve fish production in the Visayas
The United States government and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) have jointly launched “Fish Right,” a P1.3 billion five-year sustainable fisheries project aimed to increase fish biomass and strengthen ...
- November 21, 2018
B.F.A.R. support
A big number of fishermen, particularly those affected by typhoon "Sendong" in Iligan City, Misamis Oriental, and this city received several marine equipment as assistance from the government yesterday. Official of the ...
- September 1, 2012
Fish kill victims get P4.2-M aid
At least 2,839 fishermen in six Pampanga towns who were affected by recent fish kill received a total P4.2 million cash and food assistance from the provincial government. Vice governor Dennis Pineda led the distribution ...
- August 18, 2015
Back to the sea
A diver holds juvenile white-spotted shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) before he releases it to sea from the Marine Protected Area in Bagac, Bataan, Saturday. The ‘Back to the Wild’ Shark Release program is being undertaken ...
- March 4, 2018
Companies need to wake up to the new normal of climate change
Think wine growers in Australia, ski resort operators in Japan, or fishing and farming communities in the Philippines, whose way of life depends on environmental conditions that are already changing dramatically. In areas ...
- November 25, 2019
60-40 sharing with China not illegal-Palace
Malacañang found nothing illegal with President Duterte’s proposed 60-40 sharing arrangement with China on the planned exploration of the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea). President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his ...
- May 2, 2018
Private firms helping restore Boracay
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) welcomes the participation of several private firms in the government’s efforts to rehabilitate Boracay Island in Aklan. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu recently signed ...
- April 9, 2019
ADB asked to invest in small farms, fishers
Some 60 representatives of different organizations of small farmers, fishers, indigenous people's, rural youth and women and rural development organization from 13 countries in Asia and the Pacific converged in Manila to ...
- July 8, 2010
The right way? What Kaliwa Dam project means to those in the 'green' side
Amid ongoing contentions about the controversial Kaliwa Dam, environmental group Haribon Foundation reiterates that the solution to the water crisis is right in our midst – the restoration of Philippine forests. Haribon ...
- November 21, 2019