By TILDE ACUÑA
Tags: calamity
Amid typhoon Karding, monsoon rains, fishers appeal for aid, BFAR action
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – As the greater Manila area and surrounding provinces continued to be buffeted by typhoons and monsoon rains, the fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA-Pilipinas) urged the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to mobilize its reserved calamity funds. “We direly need help in the…
Mindanao farmers demand food, land, justice
“The perennial problems of landlessness and rural poverty have made farmers more vulnerable and helpless in times of calamity.”