IBON scores Marcos admin’s performative support for farmers and fisherfolk

October 31, 2026

Amid the ongoing oil price shock driving up production costs and a worsening Super El Niño damaging crops and livelihoods, government aid remains a pittance compared to the scale of needs.

Super El Niño and the government’s dry response

October 29, 2026

Deteriorating agricultural trade

October 16, 2026

MTerra: The dark side of solar farm projects

September 16, 2026

For all its promises of clean energy transition, the MTerra Solar Project exposes where the government’s priorities lie: not with the farmers who feed the nation.

Increasing food import dependence

July 21, 2026

Increasing food dependency ratio is a sign of shrinking capacity to feed ourselves. This is not an accident. It’s an outcome of decades of neglect of PH agriculture.

A fertilizer crisis unfolds

April 27, 2026

Are we headed to the inevitability of food insecurity or famine from a war that is not of our own making but brings the heaviest toll on us? More expensive fuel and fertilizer should not be a threat if only the Philippine government protects the domestic economy, local food production, and the direct food producers—the farmers and fisherfolk.

Poverty due to weak engines of growth

April 2, 2026

Infoposts from Rice and Imperialism at a risky crossroads

March 22, 2026

Agriculture, the crisis the government won’t talk about

February 27, 2026

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Philippine agriculture is suffering, but government planners barely talk about this now.