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NFA to put up years-old rice for bidding - July 30, 2011

Pinangangambahan ngayon ng grupong Rice Watch Action Network na nakalalason na ang lumang bigas na ilang taon nang nakatambak sa bodega ng National Food Authority. Ayon naman sa NFA, ipasusuri muna nila kung ligtas pa itong kainina bago nila ibenta. Magba-Bandila si Apples Jalandoni. Bandila, Hulyo 29, 2011, Biyernes.

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11M sacks of rice rotting in NFA, farmers say - July 26, 2011

Kasama sa mga ibinida ni Pangulong Aquino sa kanyang State of the Nation Address ang pagbaba ng antas ng pag-angkat ng Pilipinas ng bigas mula sa ibang bansa. Pero sa kabila nito, ayon sa isang grupo ng magsasaka ay milyun-milyong sako ng bigas pa rin ang nakatambak at nabubulok sa bodega ng NFA. Magba-Bandila si Abner Mercado. Bandila, Hulyo 25, 2011, Lunes

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R1 PRs

Judicious spending of higher 2012 agri budget urged
- 9 September 2011

Rice Watch and Action Network welcomes Rep. Mitos Magsaysay's
recommendation to ensure the country's rice self-sufficiency but also warns against increasing the budget without judiciously looking at the agriculture programs that will give the farmers maximum benefits and sustain their productivity.

“Bearing in mind the increase in budget accorded to the agriculture
sector for the past years and the extent of which these were allegedly squandered by the previous administration, we believe Congress needs to be more cautious in putting pesos and centavos to budget items that
are easily identified as the key to agriculture development,” said
Jessica Reyes-Cantos, R1 Lead Convenor.

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In Sight

 

ADDRESSING EMERGING FOOD CRISIS

Aurora Alarde-Regalado, Hazel Tanchuling, Jessica Reyes-Cantos

 

WE HAVEN’T really gotten over the impact of the 2008 food crisis, and yet another one is unfolding. Global food prices have hit record levels, largely driven by soaring prices of cereals, meat and dairy products. (See sidebar.)

Crude prices have also surged amid the conflict in North Africa and protests in the Middle East.

Rising fuel costs mean higher prices of essential commodities, transport and, of course, food.

The emerging food crisis is not immediately attributable to rice but more to wheat and sugar. Buffer rice stocks from 2009 to 2010 rose significantly in many countries, including Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, showing that rice security was of utmost concern to the region.

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Civil Society and Farmers Proposal: Integration of sustainable rice production system in the FIELDS program

RATIONALE

 

The civil society and farmers proposethat sustainable rice production system be given equal importance and opportunities in the government's rice self-sufficiency program until 2010. Providing equal political and material support to the following proposals was deemed critical at this point. The agriculture department's banner programs that are dependent on commercially-developed hybrid rice seedsand focused on chemical-based farm inputs were proven tobe the killer factors that greatly contributed to this nationwide rice crisis and failing income of the rice farmers.

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RFC1

Rice Farmers' Consultation

The Rice Watch and Action Network (R1) and the National Rice Farmers’ Council (NRFC) held a 2-day consultation at the Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines – Diliman on November 17-18, 2009.

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Bulletin 7

R1 Rice Self-Sufficiency Bulletin is a quarterly magazine of the Rice Watch and Action Network.

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News and Reports

 

 

RICE

NFA to buy more palay from farmers
- Sept. 11, 2011

House opposition member, group seel funds for agri office - Sept. 10, 2011

Hungry for Rice - July 25, 2011

Feeding the Filipino - July 25, 2011

Much Ado About Hybrid - July 25, 2011

Group says 11 million sacks of rice rotting in NFA warehouses - July 22, 2011

11M bags of imported rice at NFA 'unfit for humans' - July 22, 2011

NGO calls for rice watch - July 22, 2011

Small scale farmers can help in climate adaptation - June 21, 2011

DA's food security bid gets boost - June 10, 2011

DA set to review WTO protection on PHL rice - June 7, 2011

Senate rice probe welcomed - Jan. 22, 2011

National Rice Board formed - Dec. 6, 2010

National Rice Board formed to ensure self-sufficiency - Dec. 5, 2010

NGO seeks higher NFA budget - Nov. 10, 2010

Higher DA budget urged - Oct. 26, 2010

NGOs seek additional P17B for DA - Oct. 25, 2010

Magsasaka umapela na i-dispose ang sobrang NFA rice - July 31, 2010

Farmers' group presses disposal of excess rice - July 31, 2010

Farmers ask NFA to distribute rice before it gets rotten - July 31, 2010

NFA urged to sell rice at lower prices - July 31, 2011

NFA asked to dispose of excess rice stocks - July 31, 2010

DA chief to reduce rice imports, raise subsidies - July 5, 2010

DA urged to scrap hybrid rice subsidy - July 5, 2010

Experts concur with DA chief: Rice self-sufficiency in 3 years - July 4, 2010

Review food sufficiency strategy now - April 28, 2010

Glaring contradictions in rice importation - March 11, 2010

Rice importation ‘premature’ - March 7, 2010

No water, no rice - Feb. 26, 2010

RP-Thailand rice deal could be inked next month - Jan. 24, 2010

Gov't urged to stabilize rice prices - Jan. 12, 2010

Farmers dare Yap to look into 'rice overpricing' - Jan. 11, 2010

Gov't action sought to stabilize rice prices - Jan. 11, 2010

Gov't extends hybrid rice seed subsidy to 1st quarter - Nov. 2, 2009

Hybrid-rice subsidy available until 2010
- Nov. 1, 2009

ASEAN plans rice reserve mechanism
- Oct. 26, 2009

Don't slash rice tariff yet - Oct. 25, 2009

Rice farmers ask government to take tough stance on Asean - Oct. 25, 2009

 

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G-33 Submission on the SSM: Price and Volume Cross-Check Conditionalities, Communication by the G-33 - Feb. 5, 2010

G-33 Submission on the SSM: Seasonality, Communication by the G-33 - Feb. 5, 2010

WTO Committe on Agriculture Special Session: Refocusing Discussions on the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM): Outstanding Issues and Concerns on its Design and Structure, Submission by the G-33 - Jan. 28, 2010

Philippine Statement
India Mini-Ministerial Meeting
New Delhi, 04 September 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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