, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to … on rice production at the local level as opposed to the national level, assistance for rice farmers and the agriculture … agriculture. It may now be high time to provide concrete assistance to this sector, in particular by allocating for it defensive …

This paper offers an overview toward assessing the implementation of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act … agriculture and fisheries. The study presents a Theory of Change implicit in the AFMA, and reviews the Philippines' agricultural …

The agriculture and fisheries sector has been expanding over time, albeit within the overall context of structural … growth of household income and reduction among agriculture and fisheries households, though the recent pandemic will likely …-up planning, synthesized in the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan (AFMP), in determining strategic interventions to …

The Philippines' Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) identifies one of the modernization objectives as … "to encourage horizontal and vertical integration, consolidation, and expansion of agriculture and fisheries activities … the Philippines, where agriculture is dominated by small family farms. Consolidation will also entail formal recognition …

, progress in implementing market reform for agriculture was largely moribund until 2019, with the enactment of the Rice … support for agriculture should move away from market price support in favor of expenditure support; ii) Expenditure support …

subsectors within agriculture. To further realize the potential of the fruits and vegetables sector, one promising instrument is …

domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options are … liberalization alone has a contractionary effect on agriculture; and production support is a costly instrument for promoting … agricultural growth. The model experiments suggest that a back-to-basics strategy for agriculture, incorporating various …

); general services support; and public expenditures for agriculture. The study finds that these indicators are viable measures … played the biggest role in agricultural support. Low to negative support to agriculture up to the late 1980s was due largely … to indirect taxation of agriculture. From the 1990s onward though the protection structure swung in favor of agriculture …