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In recent months, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and others have pointed to an increase in food insecurity and “hunger hotspots” in various parts of Asia and the Pacific. While conflicts and climate crises can carry some of the blame, we must acknowledge that the slow but steady erosion of our region’s biodiversity is an equal or even greater threat to our future food security.
Every Tuesday, our virtual, pre-prayer conversations with my multi-cultural friends revolve around the weather, faith, home or our wanderings. One day someone updated us of their posting to India, one moved to Arizona while one returned to Beijing where our friendships started.
The popular Ambeth Ocampo is known as a public historian and the editorial page columnist of the longest running column on history. An author of numerous bestselling titles from Rizal Without the Overcoat to Cabinet of Curiosities: History of Philippine Artifacts, his latest is a slim book that is of special interest to me with Kapampangan roots as my mother, herself an excellent cook, Josefina Sicangco Cruz hailed from Angeles. It was nostalgic and mouthwatering reading, Ocampo’s most recent title, Manyaman: Food in Pampango Culture, Anvil Publishing, 2024. (“Manyaman” means “masarap,” delicious.)
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is holding a tanker off Zambales after its seven Chinese crewmembers – who initially did not respond to identification calls – failed to present required documents.
PRESIDENTIAL Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Lorenzo Gadon said on Friday that the poverty incidence rate in the country has dropped from 24.7 percent to 23.4 percent, a reduction of 1.3 percent.
THE Atin Ito convoy of civilian boats called off plans to sail closer to Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) on May 16, but organizers declared «mission accomplished» after an advance team, dispatched a day ahead of the official supply mission, broke through a Chinese blockade.
(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday that the Congress bicameral committee was ready to present a solution to the high price of rice.
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is eyeing a large-scale partnership with the Qatari Baladna, a Qatari agricultural firm, to boost dairy self-sufficiency in the Philippines.