The Philippines is among the top 12
countries most at risk to global warming impacts, according to the
Philippine Climate Watch Alliance (PCWA). Ironically, the country is
far from being among the world's giant greenhouse gas emitters. PCWA
said that our country accounts for no more than 0.3 percent of
greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes is set to hold island-wide consultation meetings in Mindanao from April 19 to April 21 and in Visayas from April 27 to April 29.
Island-wide consultation meetings provide PNFSP members with a venue to share updates and concerns. It also enables the secretariat to calendar the network's activities and identify the needs of network members.
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A
month after returning from a 40-day stay in the evacuation center at
the Diocesan Pastoral Center in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, students of
Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood
Development or ALCADEV eagerly start their disrupted classes anew
although a glint of apprehension is seen in their faces. At the
height of the military activities in Barangay Diatagon, Lianga,
Surigao del Sur which prompted indigeneous peoples' to evacuate in
July of this year, ALCADEV was maliciously branded by the 58th
– 401st
Brigade as front of CPP-NPA.
Armed conflict and mining aggravate food insecurity in the Philippines by displacing farming communities and taking away farmers’ livelihood and capacity to produce food.This is a major point made at the two-day national food security conference of the Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP), a nationwide network of food security non-government organizations (NGOs).
The event, entitled “Challenges, Solutions, and Actions in Addressing Food Insecurity in the Philippines” and held from October 29 to October 30 at the Balay Kalinaw in the University of the Philippines’ Diliman campus, was attended by more than 30 NGOs including PNFSP’s member organizations from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao and its partner NGOs.
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Only two years into organic farming, Bienvenido and Merlyn Eleccion
have began to reap the success of their trial farm.Despite low initial
yields – due to soil quality damage from years of chemical use –
production slowly went back to normal and even increased by as much as
20 percent. A tremendous cost reduction made the Eleccions’ rice
farming income soar from P740.00 in 2003 to P6530.80 in 2006.
Trainees from Panay, Masbate, and Isabela learned the basics of
blacksmithing and practiced making tools in an eight-day training in
Sagada.
Along with the representatives of different people's organizations in
Masbate, Iloilo, and Isabela, TABI's, OFFERS-Panay's, and CDPC's staff
members joined the training.
A blacksmith from MRDC and another from a people's organization in
Nibat facilitated the workshops, with assistance from PNFSP volunteer
Roger Camps.
At training's end, the participants had created a total of 85 tools
including tongs, chisels, punchers, bolos, a plow, and other small
agricultural implements.
