“So, when you look at the geography of the Philippines, where can you find the east that is closer to the equator? Where else but in the Davao region.” When the NSDP was planning for the ...

The Davao region (formerly Southern Mindanao) had a population of about 4.6 million in 2010, and may have reached five million in 2015. It has a land area of over two million hectares. It used to ...