Agrarian Reform Lands, Public Lands and Ancestral Domains in the Philippines: Jurisdictions and Contentious Issues

Ruel C. Limbo
ABSTRACT The respective jurisdictions of concerned agencies with respect to public and ancestral lands are defined in DAR-DENR-LRA-NCIP Joint Administrative Order (JAO) No. 1, Series of 2012.  The principles of agrarian reform, stewardship and ancestral lands are observed   in...
Country: Philippines Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Taiwan’s Road to Success in Using Bioenergy: An RD&D Oriented Thinking Approach to the Future

Keng-Tung Wu
Biomass energy or bioenergy, in 2015, was the fourth largest source of the total primary energy supply (TPES) in the world[1]. According to Renewable Energy Development Act in Taiwan, the biomass energy (Article 3.2) is defined as “energy produced by utilizing or processing the agricultural...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Smallholder Farmer Policy Support Review: Lessons from Vietnam

Dao The Anh
ABSTRACT Vietnamese agriculture reforms were embedded into general economic reforms (Doi Moi) in 1986, enabling the country’s transition toward a market economy. Since 1988, they were implemented incrementally together with complementary instruments such as agricultural market liberalization and...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
2,919
193

New Policies for Supporting Private Agricultural Investments and Supplemental Regulations on the Use of Rice Land for Agricultural Commodity Production in Vietnam

Dao The Anh, Nguyen Ngoc Mai
INTRODUCTION Vietnam in the past 30 years has implemented successful policies of national food security. The country has even become an ASEAN leading exporter of agricultural products. Nevertheless, Vietnam today is facing challenges of modernizing its agriculture to serve its integration into...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Rural development
2,490
98

Indonesia’s Market Operation of its Government Rice Inventory and Price Stabilization Framework

Effendi Andoko, Wan-Yu Liu, Cade Johnson, Edyta Zmudczynska
INTRODUCTION The Indonesian government has continually pursued efforts to stabilize food prices for the sovereignty of Indonesian food through a policy written by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 2017, the Rice Market Operation began to be regulated by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Regulation No...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Food security and safety
5,171
98

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