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The government is urged to promote social enterprises (SEs) in rural areas to provide income-generating opportunities for women, marginalized groups a..

This Policy Note revisits the country's efforts to achieve gender equality, focusing on the rural and agriculture sector. Among others, it finds that ..

THE destruction wrought by tropical storms Henry and Inday and tropical depression Josie will not cause a significant increase in commodity prices and..

The number of senior citizens, which has grown from 6.3 million in 2010 to 7.6 million in 2015, is expected to reach 11.7 million by 2025, and 22.6 mi..

Quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation have not worked for us. Much of the benefits from price support have been captured by the rice mill..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) cosponsored a multistakeholder forum titled "Ag..

THE Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture wants to perpetually earmark at least P10 billion to the rice sector annually once the quantitative restr..

THE country’s economic managers renewed their call to Congress this week to pass House Bill 4904, or the rice tariffication bill, to amend the A..

Tax reform has undoubtedly coincided with a period of higher inflation risk in the country. Any man or woman on the street can tell you that the slow ..

THE average age of farmers and fisherfolks in the Philippines is 57 years old. That was established by the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Agri..

LOGISTICS is defined as the integration of transport, warehousing, freight forwarding and information services. Along with competitiveness of products..

More workers are leaving the farm sector based on data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), as the sector’s share in total employment..

The Agribusiness Venture Arrangements (AVAs) and Sugarcane Block Farming (SBF), two government initiatives aimed at boosting farm productivity and inc..

The Filipino farm worker earns less than half what the average Filipino worker does. Worse, a farm worker produces only one-sixth the value of output ..

Myrna Panaguiton, a 56-year-old on-call helper in Caloocan City, was doubtful about the prospect of cheaper rice in the market before the end of the y..