ST. PAUL, Minn. — There's a town in the Philippines, just south of Manila, that has a deep connection to St. Paul. Turns out, it's a popular fruit that's the connection. It's fair to say that coconuts ...

Landmark collaboration aims to unlock large-scale climate finance for over 3 million coconut farmers through Carbon Markets 2 ...

OUR rice policy, which has been implemented since the 1970s, has consigned our palay farmers and agricultural workers in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Armed men opened fire on a group of sugar cane farmers who were occupying part of a plantation in the central Philippines, killing nine, and then set three of the bodies on fire, ...

Judges almost took away our food and our farms. This year’s growing season here in the Philippines is near its end, and once again we faced all of the usual challenges of pests, weeds, and weather.

Chin” Uy Jr. is a sustainable-food entrepreneur based on Negros Island in the Philippines, which recently hosted the global “good food” movement Slow Food’s first-ever regional conference in Asia and ...

As blistering lava spews from the seething volcano nearby, Philippine farmer Jay Balindang leads his buffalo through the ash-strewn paddy fields of the no-go zone. Tens of thousands of people have ...

Typhoon Haiyan not only left millions of people displaced, it also destroyed the livelihoods of the poorest in the agriculture sector. 52% of small scale farmers in the Philippines are older and in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Local farm output expanded by 2.6 percent in 2025, the fastest pace seen in eight years, beating the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...