FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Moving forward with the family farms idea
BY IKE SEÑERES
ACTUALLY, the family farms idea is not entirely new.
Family farms have existed in the Philippines for a long time now, including the...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Family farms
BY IKE SEÑERES
FAMILIES and farms have been around for centuries, but it seems that it is only in recent times that “family farms” as legal...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Eden in the city
BY IKE SEÑERES
IT’S an old story that I still remember.
Many years ago, the people of Taiwan planted every parcel of vacant land in their...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: The other side of food security
BY IKE SEÑERES
MORE often than not, we tend to define food security in terms of quantity and not in terms of quality. That is the...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Local food security
BY IKE SEÑERES
WE will never achieve real food security in this country not unless we stop importing the foreign ingredients that go into the local...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Urban farming
IKE SEÑERES
FOOD security is not a problem for the rich people because they would always have the money to buy food, assuming that there...
Faith, Hope, Charity: Organizing the supply chain of water
BY IKE SEÑERES
I DO not know who the bright boys are who figured out how to organize the supply chain of electricity, but it’s brilliant...
Faith, Hope, Charity: A centralized water authority
BY IKE SEÑERES
I HAVE ambivalent thoughts about the issue of water as a public utility. Generally speaking, I would always say that government has no...
Faith, Hope, Charity: ‘Water security’
BY IKE SEÑERES
EXISTING national laws require each and every barangay to build their own water catchment systems, a requirement that could simply be interpreted to...
Faith, Hope, Charity: Food security
BY IKE SEÑERES
WE will never achieve food security not unless we become a net exporter of rice. That is my own personal view, and I...