Food production in the Philippines

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Recent rice price hike, foot and mouth, locusts
By Brian Fegan, 21 September 1995. A speculative foray into the reasons for the causes of reduced agricultural productivity.
Farmers hit solons' grandstanding for Anwar Ibrahim
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines), News Release, 3 November 1998. The militant peasant movement Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in calls for the solution to the crisis in local sugar production and trading by the Malacañang to junk the neoliberal economic and agricultural policies of import liberalization, deregulation and privatization imposed by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Christmas 1998—a season of torment for peasants
KMP (Peasant Movement of the Philippines), Features, 24 December 1998. Angry farmworkers in Calumpit, Bulacan, decided to plow 60 hectares of disputed farmland on Dec. 23 in defiance of legal restraints filed by real estate firms. Troubles began when developers started buying ricefields in the villages of Balite, Sergio Bayan and Buguion without consulting the farmworkers who work on the land.
Puerto Galera, a paradise no more for fisherfolk
By Mirian Azurin, IBON Features, 28 October 2001. Around 70 fishing families have fought for their daily survival, and 150 families in Sitio Maniknik, Balatero, depends on fishing for a livlihood. Fishing in Puerto Galera was prohibited to preserve marine diversity in the area after tourists flocked in by waves in the 80's.