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[Title] => Quezon City rolls out learning initiative for vendors
[Summary] => The Quezon City government yesterday launched an adult learning initiative, which aims to improve the business and technical skills of local food vendors.
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[AuthorName] => Janvic Mateo
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[Title] => Managing disasters with the help of science & technology
[Summary] => Natural and man-made disasters, and armed conflicts between or within nations and groups are on the increase in various parts of the world. And it is ironic that disastrous events adversely hit less-endowed and poverty-stricken regions, compounding the impact.
As a result, gains in agricultural and fishery production are wiped out, and socio-economic systems and infrastructures are reduced to shambles, most especially if countries fail to recognize their vulnerability to disasters, and that policies and funds are not properly implemented and disbursed, respectively.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Noel O. Reyes
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[Title] => Dar named head of int’l alliance
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA-The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) announced recenty that William Dar, one of its most successful scholars, is the incoming chairman of a collective body of leaders called the Alliance of Future Harvest Centers under the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Dar is currently the director general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => IRRI team bags top research award
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — For the third consecutive year, researchers here bagged the world’s most prestigious award for a scientific support team in publicly funded agricultural research.
This year’s winners were responsible for maintaining and making accessible to farmers, plant breeders and other scientists the world’s most comprehensive collection of rice genetic resources — about 110,000 samples of traditional and modern varieties of cultivated rice, as well as wild species.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-03 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => RP reaps benefits from partnership with CGIAR
[Summary] => The Philippines continues to benefit considerably from its partnership with international agricultural research centers (IARC) under the umbrella of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Over the past four decades, the country’s collaboration with the CGIAR centers, now formally called Future Harvest Centers (FHC), have grown and expanded from joint research undertakings to institutional development.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-03 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => World’s top agri scientists meet in RP
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Some 500 research administrators and scientists from various parts of the world began their five-day meeting in the Philippines here yesterday, confident that research can considerably help enable countries to feed their burgeoning population.
The optimism was echoed by Dr. Ian Johnson, chairman of the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), who said: "Yes we can."
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-29 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Pinoys play key role in international agri research system
[Summary] => Top Filipino research administrators and scientists continue to play key roles in the international agricultural research system.
Over the years, the highly educated and experienced Filipino research managers and scientists have been taking lead responsibilities in a number of international agricultural research centers (IARCs) under the umbrella of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Top agri scientists to meet in Manila
[Summary] => Does agricultural science have the answer to the problem of feeding 1.2 billion impoverished people the world over?
Top agricultural scientists are set to gather in Manila next week to discuss ways of solving this problem during the annual general meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
The meeting marks the first time the prestigious convention of some 500 of the world’s top agricultural scientists will be held outside of Washington DC.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-25 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
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[Title] => International alliance of agri R&D investors to meet in RP
[Summary] => The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a strategic alliance of investors. 16 international research institutes known as Future Harvest Centers. 58 members including 22 developing and 21 industrialized countries and many hundreds of partner organizations which mobilizes science to benefit poor people.
The Future Harvest Centers of the CGIAR generate knowledge which is helping increase food production, improve health and preserve biodiversity and natural resources worldwide.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-20 00:00:00
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