The untold story of Filipino rice breeders behind your favorite kind of rice.
Hilario C. Dela Cruz, now 86, spent 12 years of his entire professional life breeding a new variety of rice that could withstand cold temperatures in the highlands of Ifugao and Benguet, with the goal of helping them achieve rice food security. ...
The story of how one community brings ancestral spirits and soil back to life.
The spirits in the ancestral land of Dit-ana have died long ago."The land slowly lost its fertility, rice crops grew stunted, their colors paler, and harvests barely reached a ton," Marivic N. Viray recalled. Viray is a member of Akeanon ...
The Filipino environmentalist and entrepreneur joins a proud line of honorees that once included human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, feminist and activist Gloria Steinem, and former First Lady of the United States Atty. Michelle Obama.
The BBC has unveiled its latest 100 Women list for 2023, shining the spotlight once again on the women who are championing women's rights and diversity. For this year, it chose to focus on how the current climate crisis influences the ...
At the GK Enchanted Farm, social entrepreneurs are transforming how people do business by sharing the wealth and changing lives.
It's difficult to believe that the 35-hectare GK Enchanted Farm in Bulacan, lush with fields of green, teeming with various crops, outlined by happy communities, and the site of a school, a spa hotel, pioneer centers, and a bamboo mansion, ...
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