The European Union-Asean Business Council called on the Phillippines to steer member states into strengthening licensing and oversight frameworks for high risk goods like fuel, wildlife, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and alcohol.
The Sirsiya River, once central to daily life, agriculture, and religious rituals in southern Nepal, is now heavily polluted with industrial waste and sewage, rendering it a public health hazard.
Unseasonal rains, pest outbreaks and land degradation are driving crop losses in India, while toxins, poor grain quality and delayed harvests threaten health and incomes.
Ramon “Chin-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 the Pacific.