MANILA — The recent typhoons highlighted land and crop use conversion as a factor in worsening the effects of disasters on food production and the need to ensure adequate land for food production. However amid all these, government has reserved more hectares of agricultural land for export crops and use of foreign agro-corporations. According to…
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Feast or Famine? RP-China Farm Deals and Local Agriculture
China is looking at the Philippines to meet its domestic food and energy requirements even as the Chinese economy is being restructured into an enormous assembly hub of manufactured goods for the American, Japanese and European markets. BY ARNOLD PADILLA IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 34, September 30-October 6, 2007 During Chinese…