Tag: Philippine agriculture
IBON scores Marcos admin’s performative support for farmers and fisherfolk
Oktubre 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
Oktubre 29, 2026
Deteriorating agricultural trade
Oktubre 16, 2026
MTerra: The dark side of solar farm projects
Setyembre 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
Hulyo 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
Abril 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
Abril 2, 2026
Infoposts from Rice and Imperialism at a risky crossroads
Marso 22, 2026
Agriculture, the crisis the government won’t talk about
Pebrero 27, 2026
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Philippine agriculture is suffering, but government planners barely talk about this now.