Integrated Land Administration and Management In the Philippines: Long Way to Go

Ruel C. Limbo
INTRODUCTION The Philippines lags behind its Asian neighbors in terms of land administration and management.  It is widely accepted that the multiple national land agencies lack mechanisms for coordination.  Continuing legislative efforts to rectify the situation have not evolved to...
Country: Philippines Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Enhancing Access to Agricultural Credit for Small Farmers in the Philippines: Some studies, Policy Recommendations and Innovations

Ruel C. Limbo
INTRODUCTION Agricultural credit is a major support service extended to serve the financial needs for agricultural production, marketing and other stages of the value chain. Enhancing access to credit by small farmers has always been a major component of development programs and projects in the...
Country: Philippines Topic: Agricultural finance
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Amortization on Awarded Lands by Beneficiaries in the Philippines: Cost Implications of Non-payment

Ruel C. Limbo
INTRODUCTION The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) or Republic Act (R.A.) 6677 in Section 26 provides that the lands awarded shall be paid for by beneficiaries to the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in thirty (30) annual amortizations at 6% annual interest.  The payments for the...
Country: Philippines Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Resolving the Problem of Seasonal Labor Shortage by Establishing Professional Technical Groups

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2506373) INTRODUCTION Taiwan and the rest of the world are facing the challenges of labor shortage in agriculture. Low labor participation rate in domestic agricultural sector, the aging society with low fertility rate and the fact...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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Summary of General Office of the State Council Published Opinions on Transferring Agricultural Production Models

Zhen Zhong
Background In recent years, China’s grain output continued to grow, with an increase in farmer’s incomes. Agriculture and rural economy have developed rapidly with great achievement, which provided powerful support for healthy and continuous development of the economy and society....
Country: China Topic: Agriculture
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