Davao farmers slam jathropa planting, Biofuels Act

?Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and policies that cause food deprivation among the poor Filipinos like the 70% farmers and farm workers in the country,? Celso Pojas, KMP-SMR spokesperson said.

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Is Sara Duterte testing the waters?

Princess Sara. Who's afraid of the national ID system? (davaotoday.com file photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

As if daring the groups opposed to it, vice mayor Sara Duterte said she is in favor of the hotly-debated national ID system, pronounced by the Supreme Court as "unconstitutional" in 1998, but recently revived by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to crush the mounting Communist insurgency .

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