by Admin | Jan 24, 2023 | Economic Rights, Impact Stories, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS Agri-Credit Interventions as a Lifeline for Filipino Farmers by Elijah Macaspac As Filipino farmers face worrisome challenges, agri-credit interventions can be a source of lifeline for them. Farmers have been greatly affected by the downturn of their...
by Admin | Jan 4, 2023 | Economic Rights, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS Farmers feed the country – it’s about time we listen to them By Elijah Macaspac The Philippines is one of the top exporters of bananas in the world, but still, most banana growers belong to the poorest and most disadvantaged groups of our...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2022 | Economic Rights, Newsroom, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS A Sustainable Future through Organic Farming by Elijah Macaspac Amidst the wearying economic conditions, and worsening impacts of climate change, the elderly farmers in Mawab, Davao de Oro cultivate a sustainable future through organic banana farming....
by Admin | Oct 19, 2022 | Economic Rights, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS Agricultural Financing: A Land Bank Case Study Agriculture finance empowers farmers to improve their productivity and income while supporting them to contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction in the country. The Agri-Agra Reform Act, or RA...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2022 | Economic Rights, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS Fair Finance Asia – Gender Case Study Philippine agriculture is fraught with gender issues that make it systematically harder for rural women to have equal access to rural and agricultural resources. Filipino women in agriculture play...
by Admin | Aug 9, 2022 | Economic Rights, Uncategorized
ECONOMIC RIGHTS FFA Philippines 2020 Policy Assessment The Fair Finance Asia Philippines examined responsible investment and policies of Philippine banks in a 2022 Policy...
by Admin | Jul 30, 2022 | Economic Rights, Impact Stories, Uncategorized
The key to good coffee? Give farmers better quality of life ECONOMIC RIGHTS Photo from Bote Central Groups push for PRESENT bill as social enterprises bloom Social enterprises in the Philippines and in Asia have been dubbed as ‘potential game changers’ as they...
by Admin | Jul 30, 2022 | Economic Rights, Impact Stories, Uncategorized
Mayani: Using tech to help farmers feed Filipinos, ensure market, and reduce food waste ECONOMIC RIGHTS Photo from Mayani Photos showing truckloads of disposed fresh produce went viral in the months after the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were imposed. This opened...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Economic Rights
ECONOMIC RIGHTS Sorrow and Survival of a Woman Banana Farmer Her ownership of a small banana farm in Compostela, Davao de Oro has been fraught with trials, the most devastating of which was the slaying of her husband in 2016. Welma Hibaya, a woman farmer...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Economic Rights
ECONOMIC RIGHTS NUVIARCO, Harvesting Gains Despite The Pandemic While the world confronts the pandemic, the women and men banana farmers of the farmers’ cooperative in Nueva Visayas, Mawab, Davao de Oro have been blessed with constant harvests of big and...
