Dr. Jonar Yago strides confidently between the campus lecture hall and the muddy fields of farmers, embodying the rare blend ...

Philippine farmers need urgent assistance to avoid a "double tragedy" befalling rural survivors of the typhoon that hit the country in November, the United Nations' food agency says. The Food and ...

Farmers in the Bicol region in the Philippines are experiencing the brunt of the lockdown, imposed since March 16 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is especially hard for rice farmers, ...

“Golden Rice” is probably the world’s most hotly debated genetically modified organism (GMO). It was intended to be a beta carotene-enriched crop to reduce Vitamin A deficiency, a health problem in ...

MANILA, May 15 (Reuters) - Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed the leader of a left-wing farmers' group in the southern Philippines on Thursday, his colleagues said, blaming the military for ...

Farmers from the Central Luzon region are set to petition President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to cease rice imports immediately, and redirect government funds to aiding Philippine farmers boost rice ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Farmers from Sorsogon face the constant challenge of extreme weather conditions which damage their ...

This week in Manila, I spoke at the annual media summit of AMIC, a Singapore-based media research think tank. This is part of a series of events held in rotation across Asia. The Philippines is the ...

Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) and G-Xchange, Inc. have partnered to enable Philippine farmers to receive indemnity ...

President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was asked yesterday to review her anti-GM stance and allow field experiments with GM crops to take place. The call for reconsideration came from ...

BANAUE, Philippines (Reuters) - As the Philippines grapples with its worst food crisis in years, many farmers in its cradle of rice cultivation are abandoning farming for more lucrative trades. Sign ...