Modern crop biotechnology is being considered as a novel solution to the long-standing problems of food insecurity, low crop productivity, pest and disease prevalence, and micronutrient deficiency, particularly in developing and climate-vulnerable economies. Empirical evidence of its benefits...

Wastewater and pollution management issues are usual negative externalities in the pursuit of economic development. This is true in the Philippines where industrial and domestic refuse often end up in tributaries and major waterways, sometimes even contaminating groundwater due to improper...

The small-scale mining law of the Philippines, the People's Small-scale Mining Act of 1991, is considered a dismal failure in attaining its objectives of spreading employment opportunities and allowing more equitable sharing of the resource wealth of the nation in highly mineralized areas of the...

The study looked into the resilience of provincial governance in the Philippines to disaster risk using World Bank (WB) socio-economic resiliency estimates and cross-sectional data generated by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)...

Around 300 million indigenous peoples have been identified across 70 countries, 14 million of them are located in the Philippines with their cultural zones taking up as much as 44 percent of the country's land area. There has been much confusion regarding their identity and rights, resulting to...

Waste management issues have been hounding both urban and rural communities for decades. The passing of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, was meant to ensure the protection of public health and environment while encouraging resource conservation and...

Republic Act (RA) 10121, or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) Act of 2010, has led to the passing of complementary legislation and functional policy, bureaucratic and institutional augmentations and directed government budgeting and spending. Key thematic mandates were...

An order "Banning the Open-pit Method of Mining for Copper, Gold, Silver, and Complex Ores in the Country" was issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on April 27, 2017. Justifications to the order included the past environmental disasters caused by mining...

Production of livestock, poultry, and dairy are private sector-led industries contributing a third of the agricultural sector's output, despite relative neglect in terms of government support. The dual outbreak of African Swine Fever in 2019 and COVID19 pandemic in 2020 has renewed government...

The 28th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 28) in November 2023 started with the manifestation of concrete commitments from developed countries and ended with a progressive promise to complete the establishment of a climate change loss and damage fund, sustain and administer country...