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Nov 2020
Environmental forum: ‘Go for ecological agriculture practices!’
Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 350th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum about alternatives to intensive agriculture and achieving food security on May 17, 2019 (Friday) at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. Green Convergence President Dr. Angelina Galang emphasized that “agriculture has almost permanently gone to mass farming methods.” “While this has arguably contributed to food security,” Galang said, “it resulted in a common perception that plants used in farming...
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2nd Philippine Environment Summit 2018 (Cebu) Progress Reports
The Environment Summit is a biennial undertaking of Green Convergence to celebrate important breakthroughs and advancements in environmental protection through private and public initiatives. It provides a platform where all sectors can share common challenges, collaborate on creative solutions, and replicate success stories. It is a call to government and the Filipino people to unite in accelerating the drive towards national sustainable development. Green Convergence is a large coalition of organizations, networks and individuals....
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The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022
Country’s plan to address malnutrition: Philippine Food and Nutrition Policies and Governance What are the malnutrition problems being addressed in PPAN?
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Private Agri Tourism: Malabing Valley Casibu, Nueva Viscaya
JOSEPHINE NAMUJHE is the founder of the Malabing Valley Sustainable Integrated Forest Farmer’s Association (MVSIFFA). The Malabing Valley Multipurpose Cooperative has ventured into non-traditional capacity building activities as a means to organize farmers in the valley, and as a way to protect its natural resources. The cooperative has joined forces with some NGOs and the government in preparing a land use framework for a community-based forest management program aimed at preventing uncontrolled conversion of...
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Eel Industry
JUAN RAÑA is the chairman of Integrated Growers and Traders (IGAT), a private sector-led voluntary, self-help and selfregulating association composed of Philippine Eel Industry stakeholders. It is organized to promote the interest of the Philippines in general and the eel industry in particular. The acronym “igat” is a Filipino word for eel. The drop in the world’s eel stock tremendously favors the Philippine eel industry. The dwindling supply in Japan, the biggest market for...
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Safe Food Manufacturing
I am not sure if you will agree with me that manufacturing might be a broad label for the food production realm or the industry of food production. The word manufacturing evokes factories and mass production every single time. It might not be that, because cottage industries also involve some level of manufacture. So I’d like to propose that we talk about production instead of manufacturing. That is closer to the ideals of small-scale,...
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Organic Agriculture Program of Negros Occidental
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, organic agriculture is an effective strategy for mitigating climate change by building robust soils that are better adapted to extreme weather conditions associated with climate change. The Organic Agriculture Program in Negros Occidental started with the Public- Private Initiative in Organic Agriculture which established the organic vegetable farm in the rear of Capitol Building in 2005 and the 15 pilot organic villages. The...
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Organic Agriculture
Thank you for inviting me to participate in this event. I also convey the greetings of Archbishop Antonio Ledesma for the success of this undertaking and in the conduct of an objective social audit process of our concerns about the environment. When Nina invited me to chair this session, I told her that I am not an expert on organic farming; but Nina said “don’t worry, just give an overview and help facilitate the...
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