Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "management"

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    • Agriculture's water problems can become too big. 

      Dar, William (, June 16, 2017, on page )
      It may even boil down to the following: store rainwater, by increasing the absorptive capacity of watersheds through reforestation and building more small water storage (impounding) and catchment systems; expand both the ...

    • 'FMAs need science-based management policies' 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (, December 13, 2020, on page )
      Data, knowledge and management measures must be properly applied to efficiently implement science-based policies for designated fisheries management areas (FMAs) in the country, experts urged on Friday. During the first ...

    • Managing Boracay as ancestral land and as protected landscape 

      Contreras, Antonio (, June 7, 2018, on page )
      The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through Undersecretary David Erro, perhaps in its desire to please the President who wants to convert the entire Boracay island into a land reform area, has boldly announced that ...

    • Mayors reject BFAR-proposed contraction in municipal waters 

      (, October 23, 2020, on page )
      More than 30 mayors from different coastal towns in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are opposing a proposal from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to use the coast of the mainland as reference point in the ...

    • New SEAFDEC division chief sworn into office 

      Libril, Marvs (, July 30, 2012, on page )
      Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has recently sworn in Dr. Felix Ayson, as the new chief of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), in Tigbauan, Iloilo. Ayson ...

    • PH, UNDP implement program on climate change 

      (, March 8, 2016, on page )
      The Philippines moved to take concrete action to tackle climate change through a new program that will ensure the integration of disaster risk reduction and sustainable development in development plans and programs of the ...

    • Strong support for DFAR creation 

      Dar, William (, August 17, 2018, on page )
      Oceana Philippines already furnished me the position paper on the creation of DFAR, which was a result of consultations it made with InangLupa, with non-government organizations and stakeholders from the country’s fisheries ...

    • Taiwanese fishermen protest crackdown 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (, November 7, 2018, on page )
      Fishermen and their families took to the streets in Taiwan Tuesday against what they said was an unfair crackdown on the industry which has been accused of illegal practices and human rights abuses. The rally by coastal ...

    • The world’s plastic problem 

      Stinus-Cabugon, Marit (, June 4, 2018, on page )
      Plastic is indeed ubiquitous and it is forever: Even after we are done with it and throw it away, it doesn’t cease to exist. Burn it and it will transform into invisible, indestructible toxins. Dump it and while it might ...