Aiming to strengthen his organization's longstanding collaboration with the Department of Agriculture (DA), newly-appointed country representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) Lionel Henri Valentin Dabbadie vowed to help boost the Philippine rice sector and food...
Advocates from the Pasig City Nutrition Committee (PCNC) and SEAOIL Foundation conducted training sessions with other stakeholders to ensure efficient implementation of the “Tugon sa Gutom Program.” “Tugon sa Gutom Program” is SEAOIL Foundation’s flagship program to tackle food insecurity...
BUSINESS TALK By PCCI CHAIRMAN WILLIAM S. CO Happy 2023 Chinese New Year! The Philippines is one of the most food-insecure countries in Asia. One of 10 households in the Philippines is food insecure, according to the World Food Program October 2022 survey result. Similarly, in the latest Global...
A party-list congressman wants elementary and junior high schools to implement programs and activities that would help students develop an inclination toward agriculture, fisheries, and ecology, among other things. KABAYAN Party-list. Ron Salo For this purpose, KABAYAN Party-list Rep. Ron Salo...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), through Secretary Benhur Abalos, has supported the Kapatid Angat Lahat for Agriculture Program (KALAP), a private sector-led initiative which aims to help the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the agricultural...
In a bid to help farmers and ensure food security in the country, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has secured business agreements with China to ensure fertilizer supply, Malacañang said. Malacañang photo Communications officer-in-charge Undersecretary Cheloy Garafil said this...
VEGETABLES and fruits are sold at the Agri-Fishery Trade Expo at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol grounds last October 2022. (Tara Yap/Manila Bulletin) ILOILO CITY -- Western Visayas region is banking on the next generation farming to achieve food security. “Food sustainability is a growing global...
The Insurance Commission must suspend the implementation of its Circular Letter No. 2022-34, which seeks to increase the insurance premium rates on catastrophes such as typhoons, floods and earthquakes. (Bernard Hermant/ Unsplash) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee reiterated this call Sunday,...
No farmer from the Visayas will be left behind. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. made this guarantee to farmers as he led a Visayas-wide territorial and sectoral leaders' strategy planning held recently in Bacolod City. “We support the...
The Marcos administration must focus on improving the state of agri-microentrepreneurs in the country, Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion said, claiming that the sector can help generate jobs and address food security issues. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. meets with the Private Sector Advisory...
ILOILO CITY – The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), an inter-governmental body promoting research and development, gathered in this city and the province of Iloilo to tackle the challenges of the fisheries industry in the food security of Southeast Asia. REPRESENTATIVES of...
A Quezon City congressman has filed a measure that's in line with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s declaration during the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that food was “the very basis of human security". Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas (Facebook)...
