Drought caused by El Niño has affected 200,000 families so far in Region 2, despite best efforts the Department of Agriculture and local goverment units to prepare for the effects of extreme temperature swings.
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda learned this on Wednesday during a briefing by Lucrecio Alviar Jr., DA assistant regional director, at [...]
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential bet Loren Legarda today challenged all candidates running for national positions to tackle climate change, “an issue that is no longer the abstract, unintelligible concept that it was before. Climate change is real. You can see it in the daily struggles of the poor today.”
Legarda, the only candidate carrying environmental issues in [...]
Campaigning yesterday in Cabanatuan, NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential bet Loren Legarda called for extensive consultation in the agriculture, climate change and health committees of the Senate, all of which she chairs, in order to address food security and health issues.
Legarda seeks to put an end to the heavy importation of rice and vegetables, which kills the [...]
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential bet Loren Legarda supports the declaration of a state of calamity in Mindanao, but remains on the lookout for any abuse of political power.
“I am for declaring a state of calamity in Mindanao if it will swiftly address the worsening power crisis in the region. But we should remain vigilant to prevent [...]
The government should take immediate steps to help the drought-stricken farmers, while making urgent repairs of irrigation and water impounding systems.
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda, who chairs the Senate agriculture committee, said the government must make sure the farmers and their farmlands will survive the El Nino phenomenon with enough emergency funds through a [...]
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda warned that the next administration’s biggest challenge would be a food crisis, and urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to immediately implement measures, including the release of funds, to counter the devastation of El Nino on the country’s agriculture and fisheries sector.
“Unless we lay down a strategic plan and [...]
The problem of climate change is a challenge to womanhood, said NP-NPC-LDP vice-presidential candidate Loren Legarda today as the country joins the celebration of the International Women’s Day.
“Ang issue ng climate change at gender ay magkakabit. A starving mother carrying her ailing child is often the public face of famines and food shortages.Mothers are the [...]
Public officials who belong to the landed gentry should set the example in implementing true land reform by having their own haciendas distributed among their tenants, NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda stressed before a group of farmers and traders in Saturday in Cotabato.
“For the country’s agriculture sector and farmers to be truly empowered, we [...]
Following a warning from the country’s biggest power distributor that there will be an increase in electricity prices this month due to a hike in the cost of power supplied by generation companies, NP-NPC-LDP Vice-Presidential Candidate Loren Legarda today reiterated the need for proper action on the power crisis.
“Increasing rates are band aid solutions. We [...]
Senator Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture said that the amended Agri-Agra Law or Republic Act 10000 would improve the mechanisms to deliver credit to the agricultural sector and to agrarian reform beneficiaries. The Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act of 2009, a consolidation of Senate Bill 3431, with Legarda as one of the [...]