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Increasing the income of farmers and fisherfolk
I listened very carefully to the State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, and I commend his full support to leveling up the country’s agriculture sector by investing in programs to increase the ...
- July 25, 2019
The 'New Thinking' to expand agri exports
The headlines and news generated lately from the Department of Agriculture (DA) were mostly related to rice. But with the coming holidays it will not only be rice that will be consumed in greater quantities during the usual ...
- October 24, 2019
Agriculture's water problems can become too big.
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 ...
- June 16, 2017
The power of technology and innovation in agriculture: First of two parts
Should a food-secure Philippines, with prosperous farmers and fisherfolk, be the ultimate vision for our country’s agriculture sector? This is actually the vision of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte from his very first day ...
- June 11, 2019
Food security and agriculture R&D
And the latest GFSI report giving a low score of 6 for GDP per capita clearly shows that majority of households may not have enough purchasing power for food, including those of smallholder farmer and fishers (ironically). ...
- October 26, 2018
Strong support for DFAR creation
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 ...
- August 17, 2018
PH doing badly vs climate change
One of the best ways to deal with the effects of climate change is to make the country’s agriculture sector “climate smart” that incorporates various mitigation and adaptation measures to deal with extreme weather changes. ...
- June 1, 2018
PH doing badly vs climate change
I recently got hold of two reports on the effects of climate change that made me feel a great sense of fear. Great fear, I would even say. The report entitled “Fragile Planet, Scoring climate risks around the world” from ...
- May 18, 2018