ST. PAUL, Minn. — There's a town in the Philippines, just south of Manila, that has a deep connection to St. Paul. Turns out, it's a popular fruit that's the connection. It's fair to say that coconuts ...

The Philippines is one of the 39 members of the World Trade Organization that has reserved the right to use special ...

MANILA, Philippines — Armed men opened fire on a group of sugar cane farmers who were occupying part of a plantation in the central Philippines, killing nine, and then set three of the bodies on fire, ...

For five days last November, the city of Bacolod in the central Philippine province of Negros Occidental became a crossroads ...

FILIPINO RICE FARMER Elvira C. Fadriquelan knew the numbers would not work long before she sold her wet-season harvest in October. The 60-year-old farmer, who works almost a hectare of rice land with ...

Judges almost took away our food and our farms. This year’s growing season here in the Philippines is near its end, and once again we faced all of the usual challenges of pests, weeds, and weather.

MANILA, Philippines — Local farm output expanded by 2.6 percent in 2025, the fastest pace seen in eight years, beating the ...

IN the Mekong region, smallholder farmers have long struggled with middlemen, volatile prices, and limited access to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) “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 ...

Solar Philippines Neva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC) has planned to start constructing a 3.5GW solar farm in the Philippines later this year. During its annual stockholders’ meeting on 8 June, the company ...

Typhoon Haiyan not only left millions of people displaced, it also destroyed the livelihoods of the poorest in the agriculture sector. 52% of small scale farmers in the Philippines are older and in ...