Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security
(Bloomberg) -- For the first time ever, farmers the world over — all at the same time — are testing the limits of how little chemical fertilizer they can apply…
May 1, 2022
By: Elizabeth Elkin and Samuel Gebre
Proposed top governance agendas for the next administration
BY this time next week, we will know who will be the winning presidential candidate. It must be stressed though that winning an election is the mere start of the…
May 5, 2022
By: Fermin Adriano
Sigh of relief
Albay Rep. Joey Salceda slammed the Department of Agriculture for the unabated smuggling of agricultural products – such as vegetables, fruits and meat – calling the DA the “mother of…
April 26, 2022
By: Ramon T. Tulfo
Smuggling and halitosis of the brain
LAST week, the Senate conducted another hearing on the issue of smuggling of agricultural products. As usual, it has practically become an inquisition session, with the usual detractors of the…
April 7, 2022
By: Fermin Adriano
Food sufficiency, security and sovereignty
WHILE there is substantial overlap among the concepts of food sufficiency, food security and food sovereignty, they do depart in terms of the strategy they will adopt based on the…
March 31, 2022
By: Fermin Adriano
Rice Tariffication Law: Three years after
LAST March 19 was the third anniversary of the implementation of Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), which is much maligned by Leftist and populist groups in the country. RTL's effectivity is…
March 24, 2022
By: Fermin Adriano
Why can Bangladesh feed its people?
DHAKA, Bangladesh: How this poor developing country in South Asia is able to feed its people numbering around 170 million on a land area half the size of the Philippines…
