The Philippines is now Asia’s deadliest country for land and environmental defenders ... Many in the country’s rural and mountainous areas have been gunned down in broad daylight, either ...

Nongovernmental organizations such as the Environmental Defense Fund are working with the Philippines government to adopt science-based, sustainable fishing practices, said Edwina Garchitorena ...

Through this experience, the significant health disparities between rural and urban regions of the Philippines were illuminated for me. They are considered to be the major weakness of the Filipino ...

Indigenous peoples and rural communities in the Philippines are facing human rights abuses amid ... healthy and sustainable environment. Amnesty’s business and human rights researcher Alysha Khambay ...

Agriculture plays an important role in the Philippine economy. 70 % of the country's population is in rural areas, and a considerable number of rural people rely on agriculture to make a living.

According to Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), the industry is embracing the advantages of digitalization in order to remain relevant in a business environment that has been ...

An inaugural exhibit last fall put the spotlight on “issues around the environment ... Philippines, and the Filipinos didn’t do that to themselves, and here we are.” Those who remain in ...