How I admire the resilience and survival skills of the rural impoverished Filipino. It’s something to be celebrated and admired but the fact that millions of rural poor, especially many of the indigenous people, live at subsistence level is a cause for great concern, especially as we celebrate Earth Day this week. I went horseback […]
Earth Day with the Indigenous People
April 25th, 2012 | Comments Off on Earth Day with the Indigenous People »How We Help End Hunger
March 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off on How We Help End Hunger »Hiking through the Zambales hills visiting the villages of the Aeta indigenous people is an exhilarating and yet saddening experience. I have been thinking about my recent visits to the villages of the aboriginal people that first settled the Philippine islands and survived for thousands of years as hunters and gatherers in the abundant rain […]
THE MANGOS THAT SAVED A VILLAGE
March 16th, 2012 | Comments Off on THE MANGOS THAT SAVED A VILLAGE »As I walked the last few meters with a medical team organized by the Preda Fair Trade Development Foundation to the hillside village, high in the Zambales Mountains, I was not greeted with the usual rush of excited smiling children curious at the arrival of visitors from the lowland. The Preda team entered a village […]
Philippine Coffee Farmers Trapped by Nestle’s Low Buying Price
February 19th, 2012 | Comments Off on Philippine Coffee Farmers Trapped by Nestle’s Low Buying Price »Ask any coffee farmer in Amadeo, Cavite, about the going price of their coffee and they will answer with a frown. Josefa de la Peña, a 77-year-old coffee grower, grimaced when told that the price being offered for Amadeo coffee was P96 per kilogram as of Friday.
Davos: Still not many willing to listen to the world’s poor
February 19th, 2012 | Comments Off on Davos: Still not many willing to listen to the world’s poor »Davos 2012 was a contrast of many worlds that the World Economic Forum (WEF) was valiantly trying to bridge.
