EL NIÑO WATCH: Mindanao farmers reel from El Niño crop losses, P540 million in damage reported

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – When the weather conditions are favorable, Enalyn Basarte's farm usually yields 30 sacks of corn. But this dry season, her corn plants produced small kernels that…

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PCIJ REPORT | Farmers have died waiting: Malacañang reviews DAR’s flip flop on conversion of irrigated farmland

The Office of the President is reviewing a decision of the Department of Agrarian Reform that grants the application for land use conversion of L.N. Agustin Farms Inc. in La Castellana, Negros Occidental.

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Mindanao farmers suffer big losses due to Rice Tariffication Law

Tenant farmers in Mindanao who practice conventional farming have been suffering the “worst effects” of the Republic Act No. 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), according to a research of farmers-scientists network, Masipag Mindanao.

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Fr, Fausto "Pops" Tentorio, PIME (Photo courtesy of pravoslavie.ru)

Fr. Pops remembered, ‘He said we build heaven on earth’

The ninth death anniversary of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto ‘Pops’ Tentorio PIME will fall on October 17. While the quest for justice has dragged on this long, the young people, the Lumad and scholars he had supported will honor his legacy with a tribute for his being “a true servant of the people”.

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