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Pre-Pesticides, Pro-Farmer: The Rise of Agroecology
March 13, 2024
Rice, the food that feeds the Philippines, is in climate change’s crosshairs. Sea-level rise, hotter temperatures and extreme weather are putting one of the country’s top crops at risk, as drought, floods and encroaching saltwater threaten rice paddies and the livelihoods of those who tend them. In a bid to future-proof this agricultural staple, one effort is borrowing from farming’s past.
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Philippine partners deliver strong work despite El Niño
February 7, 2024
For Filipino farmers April 2023 marked the return of El Niño, a long period of persistent drought. The drought is sure to continue until February 2024. All the more reason for Solidagro's partners to put agroecology forward as a more resilient agricultural and food supply system. A key strategy is to start up agroecological educational farms that strengthen the knowledge and skills of farming communities.
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Strengthening links: partner visit in the Cordillera region
March 29, 2023
With more than 10,000 kilometers separating us, it is sometimes difficult to make contact. That is why some Belgian colleagues visited the Philippine partners in March, with whom we carry out our programs together and who come face to face with the reality of farming communities on a daily basis. Together with CDPC (Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera), our partner since 1993, we set out on the site. We share the article published by CDPC after our visit.
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Highlight of Solidagro program in the Philippines
December 28, 2022
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Learning farm in the Philippines provides its own electricity
November 17, 2022
Capacity building of local farmers is Solidagro's 'core business'. Besides upgrading the water pump in Dilag (read more here), our local partner CDPC also installed solar panels on the agro-ecological learning farm in Lacnog, southeast of Tabuk. Honnold Foundation funded the panels, Solidagro, through CDPC, provides the organic fertilisers, training and general operation of the farm.
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Philippine partner CDPC opts for green energy
November 17, 2022
Capacity building of local farmers is Solidagro's 'core business'. In October, our Philippine partner CDPC (Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera), completed two solar energy projects in that context, with Solidagro's support. The community of Dilag village, with whom CDPC is working, took the initiative itself to start up and maintain an electric water system. And the Lacnog agro-ecological school was also in need of green energy.
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African Alliance for Food Sovereignty calls for unified agroecological position at Climate Summit
October 10, 2022
Good agroecological news from Africa, where we are working in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. The Alliance for the Food Sovereignty of Africa (AFSA), with more than 30 civil society groups from 50 African countries, is rallying behind the mission to make African agriculture agroecological. Following the November Climate Summit (COP27), the AFSA therefore formulated six recommendations.
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The critical task of the right to food advocacy under Marcos presidency
May 29, 2022
Image above: Ferninand Marcos Jr. during the election campaign on April 24, 2022. (CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia)
The son of the Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, has win the country's presidential election. In the latest election tally, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. has taken a sizable lead over his closest rival, Leni Robredo, the country's current vice president.
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Rise for Rice: Solidagro partners join World Localization Day
July 26, 2021
Solidagro Philippine partners, together with Agroecology Exchange (Agroecology X), a network of organizations advocating for agroecology, participated in the World Localization Day. The event is a celebration of the emerging worldwide localization movement which aims to restore community fabric and human-scale, ecological economies, with a central focus on local food systems.
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To the Cordillera People’s Alliance and our partner, Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera, Inc
April 24, 2021
On this 37th year of the Cordillera Day, we, Solidagro, extend our warmest greetings of solidarity to the Cordilllera people in another momentous celebration. Solidagro finds it an honor and a pleasure to be among the many international solidarity partners of the Cordillera people to commemorate the struggles of the Cordillera people for self-determination, inspired by the martyrdom of Ama Macliing Dulag.