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 ...
Weather-index insurance: predictability in a changing climate
Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Posted in Bloggers, Climate Change, Disaster preparedness, Emergencies, Poverty, Rice | No Comments »“Each planting season, I needed to borrow 30,000 pesos to prepare my one hectare farm,” says Ronald Luis of Delfin Albano town in Isabela province. He used this amount to buy fertilizer, pesticide, and other farm needs. Often, he'd start ...
Eradicating poverty by sleight of hand
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Posted in Bloggers, News, Poverty, Rice | No Comments »Eradicating poverty by sleight of hand “SWS report on rising hunger shocks Aquino” blared the Philippine Daily Inquirer headline on April 4. The source of the President’s bewilderment was the finding of the Social Weather Station’s regular self-rated poverty survey which ...
Shrinking food base for 94 million filipinos
Monday, April 11th, 2011 Posted in Agriculture and Fisheries, Bloggers, Climate Change, Food Crisis, News, Rice | No Comments »Are you ready for another food price crisis?
Monday, April 4th, 2011 Posted in Climate Change, News, Rice, Rural Women | No Comments »Oxfam partner, Rice Watch & Action Network (R1) came out with a piece on the impending food crisis in the Philippine Daily Inquirer yesterday. Talk is rife that a crisis similar to 2008, which saw rice prices hit ...
Lessons from the food price crisis
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture and Fisheries, Food Crisis, News, Rice, Rural Women | No Comments »Small farmers in developing countries have not benefited from higher food prices, thanks in part to flawed trade and agricultural policies that have made them vulnerable and weakened their positions in markets.