Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya – Upland food growers in this landlocked province have found a growing domestic market for their organic vegetable produce. During the Farmer’s Market Day last July 30, 2011 at the provincial capitol grounds, organic produce seemed to have penetrated the high-end segment of the local market. Doctors, lawyers and other professionals, Rotarians and their friends, arrived early at the organic fair to get the best produce available. The medical practitioners among them were one in saying that organically-grown vegetables and other food items can maintain one’s health and prolong one’s life.

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It was nothing short of a family reunion. Members and descendants of different generations came to meet and catch up. A banquet of native dishes with a lechon centerpiece matched the waving colored flags and signaled a great feast to be shared. A brief program was even held to reminisce the past and dream of the future of the clan.

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PRRM’s Chairperson Emeritus Helena Benitez turned 97 on June 27. “Tita Helen”, as she is fondly called by friends and admirers, is a pioneer in public service and has earned her the moniker “First Filipina”.

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It was unanimously decided in our meeting yesterday that we will be filing a 2nd Motion for Reconsideration with the Supreme Court.

We strongly believe the Supreme Court again has committed a most serious error that will result in a gross miscarriage of justice to the millions of coconut farmers, as well as to the Coconut Industry.

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One student is bound to learn theories and principles inside the thick, air-conditioned, and isolated classroom. He or she is yet to see the pragmatics of it only through illustrations and visuals presented by the academe. And being that student, I came out to take another step of learning having that principles and theories at hand.

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“Importing rice to ensure food source for the Filipinos is not the correct response to the rice crisis. There is no rice crisis to talk about.” This was the gist of a discussion paper presented by Teodoro C. Mendoza, a professor of crop science at UPLB during the Food Security Policy Forum Series organized by the PRRM as part of its 59th anniversary celebration.

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Comprising a wide range of local civil society groups including non-government and people’s organizations, social movements, progressive political formations and concerned citizens, the founding general assembly and launching of the Negros Coalition for Social Change (NCSC) was held last April 2, 2011 at the Servants of the Lord Center, San Antonio Abad Parish, Bacolod City. The NCSC calls and aims to work for authentic social reforms and transformation in Negros and the country.

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“Indigenous People are at the heart of the President who carried with him the IP agenda even before he became the President”, Secretary Teresita Delez, the Cabinet Oversight for the Indigenous Peoples’ Concern shares.

This is in response to the call of the 180 indigenous peoples from all over the country to President Noynoy Aquino to adopt the indigenous peoples agenda and action plan that they have affirmed during the National IP summit dubbed “Building Consensus, Claiming the Future” on March 21-23, 2011 at the SEAMEO-Innotech in Quezon City.

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“The Philippines is in a worse poverty situation in 2010 than when it started on the MDGs in 2000. We are losing the war on poverty. Many would still be left behind, and their numbers are simply staggering by any count,” said Isagani Serrano, SWP convenor and editor of the citizens’ report on the MDGs.

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It’s been 10 years now since the UN Millennium Summit of 2000 when nations signed on to the Millennium Declaration that promises to free humanity from poverty, hunger, and other forms of deprivation and to enlarge our basic freedoms. The promises were specified in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to be accomplished by 2015, using 1990 as baseline.

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