PH food insecurity worsening to among highest in region underscores multiple gov’t failures – IBON

Oktubre 16, 2024

NEWS

The Philippines having the third worst incidence of severe and moderate food insecurity in Southeast Asia shows the Marcos Jr administration’s failure on multiple development fronts.

Korea-PH free trade agreement: Even BINI does better

Setyembre 24, 2024

COMMENTARY

South Korea’s world class industries today were built on protectionist foundations – reason enough for the Philippine government and our economic managers to radically rethink the country’s obsolete free market globalization policies.

Why farmers in SJDM are under attack

Hulyo 5, 2024

Farming communities in San Jose Del Monte have become vital sources of agricultural products for Metro Manila. They have established their residence, economy, and self-sustaining organizations over the years. But trouble would always come to this seeming paradise.

Delubyo

Hunyo 5, 2024

Walang ibang dapat gawin ang pamahalaan kundi ibasura ang Rice Tariffication Law at ibigay ang sapat na suporta sa mga magsasaka.

Lower agri tariffs a lazy and counterproductive response to El Niño — IBON

Disyembre 27, 2023

EO 50 is counterproductive because the over-reliance on cheap imports even before El Niño occurs disincentivizes domestic producers and undermines domestic agricultural production.

Ladrilyo

Setyembre 11, 2023

Napagtanto ko bigla at hindi maiwasang maihalintulad ang mga magsasaka ng Paradise III sa mga nagkalat na ladrilyo sa lugar.

It Takes Lives to Build a Paradise

Hulyo 14, 2023

The farmer families in Paradise III, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan are under threat from competing landlord and oligarchic interests. But they face these daunting challenges with their humble but resolute struggle to assert their right to land and livelihoods.

Agriculture deserves a competent leader

Hulyo 1, 2023

The Marcos Jr administration has not been looking at the stark reality of long-term agricultural decline. This chronic crisis deserves a full-time, competent and diligent leader.

Sales of agrochemical corporations in the world in 2021

Abril 22, 2023

The Philippines was among the first countries to promote the use of inorganic chemicals and input-dependent crop varieties through the Marcos Sr-era Green Revolution. To date, the world’s top-selling agrochemical companies are among the suppliers of chemical and inorganic inputs which the Philippine government continues to usher into domestic farms. This has also partly led […]