Kidapawan tragedy: Spotlight on climate change and local governance
BY PURPLE ROMERO TWO weeks before the violent encounter between the police and the farmers in Kidapawan happened, Cotabato Gov.Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza delivered her State of the Province Address where she proudly said that the province is “surviving the drought” brought by El Niño. Local daily Sunstar reported that Mendoza described 2016 as a “breakthrough year”
