Senate Agriculture and Food Committee Chairperson Loren Legarda asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) for updates on the progress of the installation of rainwater harvesting systems in typhoon and flood prone agricultural areas in the country. The lady senator said that she expects acceptable climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures have been put in [...]

Senator Loren Legarda extended green jobs, scholarships and farming equipment to rural provinces, in line with her advocacy to promote sustainable development in the countryside.
Through Senator Legarda’s initiative, Php12 million worth of funds have been earmarked in the 2010 national budget to create green jobs. She has also initiated Php50 million worth of scholarship funds [...]

The Philippine Youth Climate Movement (PYCM), Senator Loren Legarda and Luntiang Pilipinas partner in joining more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.
According to Loren, who chairs the PYCM, Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today championed her proposal for a water security program to boost agricultural productivity amidst the heat wave brought by El Niño.
“The crop damages caused by El Niño has now reached Php8.4 billion, and with the heat wave expected to last until June or July of this year, we’ve got to step up [...]

Senator Loren Loren Legarda today championed food sovereignty, describing it as a right of everyone to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems.
“Right now, food prices continue to spiral upward because it’s linked to international market forces beyond our control. And there’s also the issue of climate change, of the drought constraining the [...]

enator Loren Legarda today urged immediate support for farmers and fisher folk in adopting to climate change.
“Government should provide cash transfers for farmers whose lands have been dried up by El Niňo. This would allow them to recuperate from heavy losses brought by the drought, and help them survive this critical period,” Legarda said.
Legarda pointed [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today warned against the rising number of climate change refugees in the Philippines, and urged immediate action to prevent the country from becoming a total disaster area.
She said that in 2009 alone, over one million Filipinos became climate change refugees, and the number is still growing. A professor in Oxford University estimates [...]

loren Legarda urged banks and government financial institutions to fast-track compliance with the implementation of the revised Agri-Agra Law to boost financial support for rural farmers, whom she calls the country’s “silent heroes”.The law mandates banks and financial institutions to extend 25% of loanable funds to the agricultural, fisheries and agrarian reform sectors. The revised [...]

NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential bet Loren Legarda told the Department of Agriculture (DA) to consult the farmers and fisherfolk on what they need this El Nino season and not just give them anything that they do not really need or not their priority.
Reacting to the comments of farmers that the Department through the local government units [...]

Loren Legarda carrying environmental issues in her national campaign, cited the plight of farmers against El Nino, hunger, poverty, and the spread of disease as “everyday effects of climate change”.
“Ang mga pinaka-apektado ng climate change ay ang mga mahihirap. Sino ba ang nawawalan ng ani tuwing tagtuyot? Sino ang nasasalanta ng mas madalas at mas [...]