Monsoon floods reveal communities’ fighting form vs disaster
Saturday, August 11th, 2012 Posted in Disaster preparedness, Emergencies, Miscellaneous, News | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_2324" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="Our team speaks to a community volunteer who, trained on disaster preparedness, now manages an evacuation center in Angono, Rizal with relative ease."][/caption] Manila, 11 August 2012 - For three straight days monsoon rains poured and a ...
Women’s awesome powers can fix world’s broken food system
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 Posted in Creative Solutions, Grow, News, Women's Empowerment | No Comments »Around the world women are making decisions about what their families eat. And collectively, those women hold enormous power. As consumers, women control about 70% of the world’s annual consumer spending. It’s not right that cooking and caring for the family ...
Landmark climate preparedness fund passed by Congress
Thursday, June 7th, 2012 Posted in Climate Change, DEPENSA, News | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_2203" align="alignleft" width="547" caption="PACKING A PUNCH. From left to right: TV personality Tado, Congressman Irvin Alcala, Deputy House Speaker Lorenzo "Erin" Tañada III, community leaders Lito Tumbalo and Elvie Balalad at the launch of the DEPENSA campaign in 2010. ...
Women key to new ‘agricultural future’
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Posted in Agriculture and Fisheries, Climate Change, Grow, News, Rural Women, Women's Market | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1884" align="aligncenter" width="502" caption="Women food producers like Aida Fernandez (a seaweed farmer from Mindanao, the Philippines' food basket) produce half of the country's food but receive less support than men."][/caption] Even as some Filipino women have broken glass ceilings and ...
People’s Survival Fund bill pushed to avert another ‘Sendong’
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Climate Change, DEPENSA, Disaster preparedness, Emergencies, News | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1791" align="aligncenter" width="574" caption="A window of hope: Advocates are calling for the passage of the People's Survival Fund bill, a special trust fund that local governments can access to prepare for disasters like 'Sendong' set to rise because of ...
What the changing donor landscape means for local development
Friday, November 11th, 2011 Posted in Bloggers, Creative Solutions, News, Poverty | No Comments »It finally happened yesterday. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned or rather promised to resign over this weekend once the austerity measures needed to tide over the financial crisis facing Italy are passed into law. This follows the financial crisis ...
Innovative rice-growing method withstands typhoons
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in Agriculture and Fisheries, Disaster preparedness, Emergencies, News, Rice | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1459" align="alignleft" width="491" caption="Photo: Tul Pinkaew"][/caption] Battered by an annual average of 20 typhoons, the Philippines' food production is increasingly at the mercy of the elements. The latest figures from the Department of Agriculture (DA) peg the damages of typhoons Pedring ...
Now serving: good food lunch
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in Agriculture and Fisheries, Grow, News, Rural Women | No Comments »Nothing like landing the cover of the nation's biggest Sunday magazine as a reward for months of hard work.