Agriculture - Matches

The 2016–2017 Economic Policy Monitor highlights the fiscal design aspect of the Philippines' proposed shift to a federal system of government. It p..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) held a public symposium on "Competition Issues..

This study assesses the performance of the sugarcane block farming (SBF) as a land consolidation model for increasing farm productivity and income of ..

This issue of the Development Research News (DRN) looks at the prospects, opportunities, and challenges facing the Philippines in the advent of the Fo..

This issue of the Development Research News (DRN) revisits the country’s social protection programs and provides strategies to further improve their..

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..