Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security
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 without devastating…
May 1, 2022
By: Elizabeth Elkin and Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg News
Why do we import agri-food commodities?
IT has become commonplace among our policymakers and media practitioners to complain why we keep on importing our food and agricultural requirements when the Philippines is an "agricultural country."
June 9, 2022
By: Fermin Adriano
Food shortages are next global health crisis -expert
LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) - Growing food shortages may represent the same health threat to the world as the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading global health figure has warned.
June 8, 2022
By: Jennifer Rigby
Urea plummets: Russian exports, late planting, imports
Urea prices in New Orleans, Louisiana, are nearly half the level they were a couple of months ago.
June 6, 2022
By: Sean Pratt
Why fertiliser prices are soaring
As well as bringing devastation to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s war risks tipping millions of people around the world into hunger. Russia and Ukraine supply 28% of globally traded wheat, 29% of…
May 31 2022
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World’s top fertiliser maker sees two years of high prices
In more bad news for farmers, a fertiliser that's key for crop production across the world will remain expensive for at least two years
May 24, 2022
By: Ciaran Moran
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…
