LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—There is need for innovation in agriculture because its current environment is rapidly changing, Dr. Patricio Faylon, executive director of Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), said in its 37th anniversary last week.

“The environment in which agriculture operates is rapidly changing,” said Faylon.

Two organizations from the corporate sector and civil society will join hands in 2010 to launch a program to protect the Visayan Sea and the whale sharks (butanding) that migrate in the area on certain periods of the year.

In an e-mail interview with BusinessMirror, Cemex Philippines public affairs director Darwin Mariano said the company will partner with Batas Kalikasan to put up a project to boost and sustain™ biodiversity in the area. 

CLIMATE change has already affected every aspect of people’s lives. No country is immune from such a challenge. No single country can alone fulfill the daunting tasks of tackling climate change. Thus, an unprecedented global cooperation is urgently needed.”

Thus said United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Dr. Jacqui Badcock in the Fourth International Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Forum last week.