AVANT GARDENER This is my last column as Agriculture editor of the Manila Bulletin and editor-in-chief of Agriculture Magazine. It has been my honor and pleasure to helm Agriculture Online for the past six years, and the Agriculture Section of the Manila Bulletin and Agriculture Magazine for...
By YVETTE TAN Most people know Thou Reyes as an actor who’s appeared on TV, in film, and onstage. What not a lot of people know is that this Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Best Supporting Actor winner is also an entrepreneur. Actor Thou Reyes is the owner of Rice and Shine, a rice and sundry...
AVANT GARDENER Most people know Thou Reyes as an actor who’s appeared on TV, in film, and onstage. What not a lot of people know is that this Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Best Supporting Actor winner is also an entrepreneur. Reyes is the proud owner of Rice and Shine, a rice retail shop...
By YVETTE TAN Bungkol Elementary School (BES) stands beside Good Food Farm in Calauan, Laguna. It has been a beneficiary of Rise Against Hunger Philippines’ (RAHP) feeding program for almost two years, and has already seen big results. Bungkol Elementary School has been a beneficiary of Rise...
AVANT GARDENER (Part II) last week, Glenn Denning, author of Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet, explained why it is possible to achieve universal food security given current resources. Here, he discusses how that can be made possible. Getting everyone on...
By YVETTE TAN According to an August 2023 survey by Social Weather Stations, about 10.4 percent of Filipino families have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months. This means that the family has been hungry but did not have anything to eat. Hunger isn’t the only...
AVANT GARDENER In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wanted to assemble the infinity gauntlet so he could eradicate half of all life in the universe because he claimed that genocide is what is needed to restore balance and to keep resources from being depleted by overpopulation. This was not his...
AVANT GARDENER Arnold Abear, 43, from Bagong Silang, Maramag, Bukidnon is a farmer who has found success in planting coffee. The former rubber farmer switched crops in 2008, after rubber prices dropped during the financial crisis that same year. He was originally from the municipality of...
AVANT GARDENER Rice is life, and this has never been more true than for Filipinos. Around 80 percent of the Philippine population spend a fourth of their income on this grain, amounting to about 33,000 tons per day, nationwide. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the...
AVANT GARDENER The agriculture and fisheries sector continues to decline. Last year it accounted for only 2.9 percent of the nation’s GDP, the lowest in five years. This, despite increasing and insistent calls to strengthen the industry amid continuously rising food prices. Despite alarms raised...
AVANT GARDENER Everybody talks about the need for more young people to consider the agriculture industry as a viable career. Danilo Fausto, president of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc (PCAFI), a conglomeration of the different sectors in Philippine agriculture, stated in the...
AVANT GARDENER Last week I published an article about Bernadeth Carandang from Medina, Magallanes, Cavite, a high school teacher and secretary of Magallanes-Samahang Magsasaka ng Kay-apas at Medina Agriculture Cooperative (Mag-Samakame). I chronicled her journey from a high school graduate...
