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[amigo32]

sipsipin mo kaya, mas masarap

[GearX]

yung gumawa ng survey nagugutom kasi....

[3cr]

‘Graft worsening poverty’
Manila Standard
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?...cs5_oct11_2007

THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said yesterday that massive graft and corruption and the lack of support for natural family planning methods are the main causes of poverty.

“Let us not blame the population as if it is a party to the economic and social problem of our country,” said CBCP president and Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, reacting to Iloilo Rep. Janet Garin’s statement asking the Church to stay away from government campaign on use of contraceptives and other artificial methods to control the population.

CBCP spokesman Msgr. Pedro Quitorio said that the reason behind poverty is bad governance.

Earlier, the CBCP had expressed opposition to a reported plan in Congress to appropriate P1 billion for the purchase of condoms, birth control pills and other reproductive health products to control population growth.

Lagdameo said the government funds should be used for hunger and poverty alleviation projects as well as for the free education of extremely poor children.

The CBCP head said controlling population growth through the use of artificial methods like condoms and birth control pills, among others, was not answer.

Had the government been supportive in sincerely pushing the natural methods of family planning and graft and corruption would be eradicated, the economic living of people, particularly those under the poverty line, will certainly be alleviated, Lagdameo said.

But the Catholic prelate was quick to point out he was not accusing any specific individual in the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Lagdameo also said the Church respects the conscience of the people and supports the public in choosing which family planning method they want to practice.

In support of Lagdameo’s statements, Quitorio said the Church was against the wrong means of controlling population growth and the apparent lack of interest and support of the government in pushing natural methods in the Family Planning program.

Lagdameo clarified that the Church does not forbid the advocacy of the increase or decrease of population provided the freedom of the couple to exercise sexual and family morality according to their religious conviction are respected.

Since the Church objects to the use of artificial contraception, it likewise objects to their dissemination, he said.

Citing its own records, the CBCP refuted government claim that the Philippines’ growth rate is 2.36 percent as it said that the United Nations using the same census data has arrived at a very much lower rate.

As it reiterated its opposition to the congressional plan, Lagdameo said the CBCP is throwing its support to lawmakers who promote the moral teachings on life, family and population.



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SWS: Producing own food no cure-all for hunger
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=96768


Owning a garden, fish pond or other supplementary food source is no guarantee that a Filipino family would no longer experience hunger, results of the latest Social Weather Stations survey revealed Tuesday.

The SWS survey, conducted last September 3-5, showed that total hunger is higher among families with a supplementary food source (22.1%) than among those without such a source (20.6%).

"The ideal scenario is that total hunger [incidence] wouldbe lower among those with alternative food source. However, this only affects families that experience severe involuntary hunger or those who experience hunger often," Leo Laroza, SWS senior survey research and communications specialist, told abs-cbnNEWS.com.

In the survey, severe involuntary hunger was experienced by 3.3 percent of households with a food garden, fishpond or animals raised for food compared to 5.1 percent among families with no alternative food source. On the other hand, moderate involuntary hunger is slightly higher among those with access to their own supplementary food source (18.8%) than among those without access to such food sources (15.5%).

"Thus the ability to produce one's own food is not a cure-all for hunger," SWS said.

The survey revealed that about 10 million households reported having access to at least one of the three supplementary food sources. Forty-six percent or about eight million households have access to a fruit or vegetable garden, 39 percent or about six million households raise animals for food, and 4.8 percent or an estimated 800,000 households raise fish for food.

Laroza said access to supplementary food sources tends to lessen severe hunger more among classes D and class E than among class ABC.

The survey revealed that rotal and severe hunger are consistently higher among class ABC households with access to a food garden and animals raised for food than households with no access to such food sources. No incident of hunger was recorded among households that raise fish for food, while it is 8.5 percent among those not raising fish for food, the survey revealed.

Among class D families, severe hunger is 2.1 percent among households with access to a food garden, compared to 4.5 percent among households without access to a food garden. It is 3.4 percent whether or not households raise animals for food. It is two percent among families that raise fish for food, compared to 3.5 percent among households that do not raise fish for food

Among class E families, severe hunger is 5.3 percent among households with access to a food garden, compared to 6.9 percent among households that do not have access to a food garden. It is 4.6 percent among families that raise animals for food, compared to 7.2 percent among household that do not have such food source. It is 5.9 percent for families that raise fish for food, compared to 6.1 percent among households that do not raise fish for food.

Supplementary food source common in provinces

Families with access to supplementary food sources are more common outside Metro Manila.

Household access to a food garden is 58 percent in Mindanao, 51 percent in Balance Luzon, 40 percent in Visayas, and 18 percent in Metro Manila.

Families that raise animals for food is 53 percent in Mindanao, 45 percent in the Visayas, 38 percent in Balance Luzon and nine percent in Metro Manila.

Relatively few households raise fish for food: seven percent in Balance Luzon, four percent in Metro Manila and three percent each in the Visayas and Mindanao.

Households with access to supplementary food sources are more typical among the lower classes than among the upper-middle classes.

Families with access to a food garden is 51 percent among class E, 45 percent among the masa or class D, and 39 percent among class ABC.

Households that raise animals for food is 41 percent among class E, 39 percent among class D, and 27 percent among class ABC.

Raising fish for food is low in all classes: five percent among class D, four percent among classes E, and two percent among class ABC.

[amigo32]

ano? baka tamad magluto. hehehe

[normandb]

Originally Posted by 3cr

‘Graft worsening poverty’
THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said yesterday that massive graft and corruption and the lack of support for natural family planning methods are the main causes of poverty.

At ano naman naitulong ng simbahan para mabawasan ang poverty. Tulong na ba yong magpakain ka ng lugaw isang beses isang taon sa mga batang mahihirap. Mas malaki pa naitulong ng mahihirap sa simbahan sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng abuloy sa simbahan habang kinakanta ang Cordero ng Dios tuwing misa.

[death327]

Is it possible for us to remove the influence of church in all economic dealings of this country? I am getting tired of this kind of news. The church has nothing to do with the state and they should not be linking this in whatever problem of the society. For me, IMO, the church is another headache that hinders us to be a matured society. Hay.

[Sinjin P.]

Hay naku, SWS, Society of Witches and Sorcerers. Kaya pala namamagic nila ang mga survey results

[death327]

I like that new way of calling SWS... Society of Witches and Sorcerers (the dark side)

[Maxxclip]

Idodonate ko po sana yung lunch ko kahapon


baka makatulong to sa mga nagugutom

[3cr]

Jobs created in hunger mitigation program
Business World
http://www.bworld.com.ph/BW102707/content.php?id=051

The Department of Agriculture (DA) said yesterday that under the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP), the government has created 27, 467 jobs for poor families engaged in rice production.

As of Oct. 5, 95% of the targeted 1.3 million hectares of land have been planted with rice, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said of AHMP’s progress.

In line with the higher rice production program, 3,445 jobs were created with the restoration and rehabilitation of irrigation systems on 11,446 hectares of rice lands; this benefitted 3,847 households and 3,445 jobs.

Mr. Yap said in the same period, 24,171 households benefited from the fishery component of the AHMP, while 772,068 families have been given livelihood from the Programang Gulayan ng Masa.

Despite the DA’s program to improve agricultural productivity, raise rural incomes and make basic goods affordable to low-income families, think tank Ibon Foundation executive editor Rosario Bella Guzman said data from the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) shows no signs of improvement in poverty and income inequality.

The FIES study said that the share of the poorest 30% in 2006 accounted for only 8.6% of the country’s total income, while the richest 10% account for almost 36%.

Ibon, which has been critical of the administration, said the figures reflect an economy that favors a few while neglecting the welfare of millions.

"The problem of poverty and inequality is certain to linger especially in the absence of genuine reform policies that would result in a just redistribution of productive resources in the country," said Ms. Guzman.

[cheersmate]

Originally Posted by Maxxclip

Idodonate ko po sana yung lunch ko kahapon


baka makatulong to sa mga nagugutom

i have a better idea..use ur wand a la-potter style to produce loads of food..then dalhin mo sa charity.
or save ur money and donate sa charity..don makakatulong ka cheers

for most of u who havent seen people in hunger..there are loads of places in manila. di nyo na need dumayo,marame sa tabe-tabe. baka nga ung survey result kulang pa.its not that impossible
its so sad..the economy is improving..but kelan bumaba bilihin?
how massive is the increase in salary..just to buy necessities in pinas?

[gen1]

I've been to some pretty remote mountain villages in mindanao and the visayas. You will not see kids with distended bellies like in somalia.

You will see a lot of undernourished kids though. Rice or corn is not always available so on lean days they will subsist on rootcrops like kamote or kamoteng kahoy. Try eating that simply boiled and just dipped in salt and you will know the meaning of moderate hunger.

(ulam for them on good days will be instant mami). pero pag bagong harvest ang rice, sus. ang sarap ng palay bundok, kahit asin lang ang ulam, oks na

[gen1]

Originally Posted by Maxxclip

Idodonate ko po sana yung lunch ko kahapon


baka makatulong to sa mga nagugutom

Bisaya ka dong ? Favorite kong breakfast yan sa bisaya, ampalaya omelette. It never tastes as good in manila as it does in the visayas.

[amigo32]

Originally Posted by gen1

I've been to some pretty remote mountain villages in mindanao and the visayas. You will not see kids with distended bellies like in somalia.

You will see a lot of undernourished kids though. Rice or corn is not always available so on lean days they will subsist on rootcrops like kamote or kamoteng kahoy. Try eating that simply boiled and just dipped in salt and you will know the meaning of moderate hunger.

(ulam for them on good days will be instant mami). pero pag bagong harvest ang rice, sus. ang sarap ng palay bundok, kahit asin lang ang ulam, oks na

dati sa probinsya pag walang ulam, maraming manok na alaga(native), katay ng isa . ang sarap. yan ang namimiss ko

[gen1]

mas mahal ang native chicken kesa magnolia chicken ngayon kahit sa probinsiya

[amigo32]

Originally Posted by gen1

mas mahal ang native chicken kesa magnolia chicken ngayon kahit sa probinsiya

oo nga, mas masarap kasi yun at matagal magpalaki. all natural pinapakain namin, no commercial feeds(walang pambili).

[3cr]

Migration no guarantee out of rural poverty, says World Bank
By ISAGANI DE LA PAZ
www.ofwjournalism.net
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=97387


Contrary to popular beliefs, migration, despite the volume of money it brings, has neither brought rural folks out of poverty nor is it a sure fire way for farm people to clamber aboard the prosperity wagon.

“Where migration is more or less permanent, income from migration depends on the success of the migrant and the reason for migration. So migration is not a guaranteed pathway out of poverty,” the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in its World Development Report 2008 report.

The Washington, United States-headquartered IBRD, popularly known as The World Bank, cited in its 386-paged report that “despite massive rural-urban migration, rural poverty will remain dominant for several more decades in Asia."

The bank’’s World Development Report 2008, which focuses on identifying ways for governments to lift some 600 million rural people from extreme poverty, said that while this has been achieved, it is not due to migration.

“More than 80 percent of the decline in rural poverty is attributable to better conditions in rural areas rather than to out-migration of the poor,” the report titled “Agriculture for Development” said.

“So, contrary to common perceptions, migration to cities has not been the main instrument for rural (and world) poverty reduction,” it added.

In fact, authors of the World Bank report noted that out-migration of people from rural areas has even contributed to the constant rate of poverty rate in cities.

The report, released October 19, noted while the poverty rate of US$1-a-day has been declining in developing countries –from 28 percent in 1993 to 22 percent in 2002, this “has been mainly the result of falling rural poverty (from 37 percent to 29 percent) while the urban poverty rate remained nearly constant (at 13 percent).”

The report also noted that during the period under study, 1993-2002, there was an 81-percent reduction in rural poverty worldwide. But this is “ascribed to improved conditions in rural areas; migration accounted for only 19 percent of the reduction”.

Migration, the report said, “lifts some of the rural poor out of poverty but takes others to urban slums and continued poverty."

National

Even remittances from abroad are downplayed by the report on contributing to national poverty rate declines.

While the report acknowledges that there are “indirect effects of urbanization on rural poverty through remittances and rural wage changes, this is “through tighter rural labor markets”.

But this argument, the report’s authors said, has a conservative but unlikely assumption: all rural-urban migrants are poor.

The bank computed migration’s contribution to rural poverty reduction using the US$2.15 poverty line rather than the US$1.08 extreme poverty line “because it is unrealistic to think that all migrants are extremely poor."

Even so, using the same assumption that all those who migrate are poor, the report noted that reduction in rural poverty would still hit 81 percent, “not to migration."

“Indeed, almost all the decline in South Asia and East Asia is because of a genuine decline in poverty in rural areas. Even when China is excluded from the sample, 67 percent of the reduction in rural poverty is from causes other than migration,” the report said.

According to data compiled by the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (Imdi), there is no direct correlation between the number of Filipinos going overseas for temporary or permanent work and stay, and the poverty incidence levels.

For example, the National Capital Region, composed of more than a dozen cities, has posted a 4.3-percent poverty incidence level in 2003. In an eight-year period beginning 1998, almost a million overseas Filipinos came from this region.

However, the data that the nonprofit group Imdi compiled couldn't cite if these Filipinos just used the NCR as temporary residence prior to going overseas or which rural area they came from if they, indeed, migrated from farm villages.

It is difficult to determine so since the NCR is the reservoir of major government agencies processing the export of Filipino labor as well as the receptacle for the air travel and remittance industries.

Likewise, despite Davao del Sur, for example, posting a 24-percent poverty incidence rate and having recorded 55,117 Filipino migrants, Batanes island posted only a 9.2-percent poverty incidence level despite only 72 of its residents having left that fishing and farming province that’s the tip of the Philippines.

Another example is Pampanga, President Gloria Arroyo's home province, which posted a six-percent poverty incidence level. It is second to the NCR for having the most number of Filipino migrants at 125,226. Compare this to Pangasinan, home province of former President Fidel V. Ramos, which had 111,029 of its citizens migrating in the eight-year period ending 2005. Still the province posted a poverty incidence level of 18.6 percent, more than double neighboring Pampanga’s.

With the exception of Batanes, 14 provinces have poverty incidence levels above the national average of 25.7 percent.

“The high poverty levels of these provinces can perhaps explain why citizens from these areas cannot easily migrate overseas,” the Imdi scoping study on migrant philanthropy released last August said.

Impacts

Even the World Bank report admits it is difficult to establish migration’s direct impact on rural poverty reduction levels.

“Migration can be a climb up the income ladder for well-prepared, skilled workers, or it can be a simple displacement of poverty to the urban environment for others,” the report noted.

The report also cited that while remittances from migrants back to the farm household “can relax capital and risk constraints, the relationship between migration and agricultural productivity,” for one, is “complex.”

“The (temporary) absence of household members reduces the agricultural labor supply. Agricultural productivity can therefore fall in the short run but rise in the long run as households with migrants shift to less labor intensive, but possibly equally profitable, crops or livestock,” the report said.

Remittances, the report noted, “often drastically change the composition of the rural population” and “can pose (their) own challenges for rural development, because migration is selective.”

“Those who leave are generally younger, better educated, and more skilled. Migration thus can diminish entrepreneurship and education level among the remaining population,” the report said.

Likewise, the report cited there are evidence suggesting migration “is most accessible for the wealthiest and best educated of the rural population, as moving requires means to pay for transportation and education to find a good job.”

“Moreover, better-educated migrants are the most likely to have a successful migration outcome,” the report added.

It particularly cited the Philippines as having more female migrants to urban areas faring better than the less-educated males.

The report estimated some 575 million people migrated from rural to urban areas in developing countries over the past 25 years.

Of these, it said, “400 million lived in transforming countries, where migration flows increased to almost 20 million a year between 2000 and 2005.”

Migration flows as a share of the rural population have been traditionally highest in urbanized economies, but they have fallen over 2000–05 to an annual rate of 1.25 percent. In transforming and agriculture-based economies, the annual flow of out-migration steadily increased to 0.8 percent and 0.7 percent of the rural population, respectively.

The report also noted that international migration out of rural areas is male-dominated in Ecuador and Mexico, but female-dominated in the Dominican Republic, Panama, and the Philippines.

[zhock2001]

for some city dwellers, sosyal ang native na pagkain, kaya sa handaan maraming native dishes!

for folks in the most remote areas of the country, any canned food (sardines, corned beef, probably even noodles) are "sosyal"....

haaay..... kahit ako gutom na gutom na!!! wala nakong pambili ng pagkain, naubos sa internet!

[Animo]

By Henrylito D. Tacio

"IF WE continue to think of solving food problems only in terms of traditional crops (rice, wheat, and corn), many of which are now fast approaching their yield ceilings, we may be limiting our options for meeting future challenges," lamented Dr. Hubert Zandstra, former director general of the International Potato Center (CIP).

Now, will potatoes come to the rescue? Experts think so.

Recently, potato has been given finally the attention it deserved. During the World Food Day celebration last October, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared 2008 as the International Year of Potato.

"In most places, potato is eaten by poor people," commented Jacques Diouf, FAO director-general. "Through increased productivity, the developing countries have doubled their production in 15 years."

Currently, potato is the fourth largest food course of food for the world - after rice, wheat, and corn. Every year, 350 million tons of potatoes are produced, 52 percent of these in developing countries.

"The potato trade represented US$6 billion in 2005," the FAO head reported. "This trade has doubled in volume and has risen fourfold since the mid-1980s. So it's a growing product in terms of its impact."

While potato production declined in developed countries by around one percent over the last 20 years, Diouf said it increased by about five percent in developing countries over the same period.

The name "potato" is believed to be derived from the Inca name "papa." The association with Ireland is thought to be responsible for the name "Irish potato," which is retained even though potatoes are grown almost all over the world. "The potato is continuing its march," said a CIP official. "There's just something about potatoes that everyone likes. It goes with anything."

The history of the potato has its roots in the windswept Andes Mountains of South America. The modern world did not come in contact with the potato until as late as 1537 when the Spaniards tramped through Peru. And it was even later, about 1570, that the first potato made its way across the Atlantic to make a start on the continent of Europe.

Although the Spanish most likely brought the potato to the Philippines, the precise date or circumstances of the introduction is unknown. History records showed that the first mention of the potato in the Philippines was made by the Jesuit naturalist, George Joseph Camel, who lived in the Archipelago in the late 18th Century. The term "papa" was recorded by him as the word used by Filipinos and Spaniards to designate the crop.

"Potatoes are exceptionally nutritious: they are rich in potassium, iron, magnesium, vitamins B and C, and complex carbohydrates, have a better quality protein than soybean and are 99.9 percent fat-free," said an article which appeared in the October 13, 1990 issue of The Economist. "The idea that they are fattening is a myth."

Currently, there are about five thousand potato varieties grown in 130 countries around the world. In Asia, the top growers are China and India.

In the Philippines, potato is consumed as a vegetable and occasionally as a snack item. It is ideally cooked with meat, often as a meat extender in recipes such as “adobo,” “egado,” curry, and “lumpia.” There are about 12 Philippine companies that produce potato chips and snacks. Demand for French fries is growing at the rate of 23 percent per year.

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Marami kayang mga pagkain sa atin pero ma-arte lang ang mga tao!!!

[gen1]

Originally Posted by zhock2001

for some city dwellers, sosyal ang native na pagkain, kaya sa handaan maraming native dishes!

for folks in the most remote areas of the country, any canned food (sardines, corned beef, probably even noodles) are "sosyal"....

haaay..... kahit ako gutom na gutom na!!! wala nakong pambili ng pagkain, naubos sa internet!

sorry to disappoint. canned food in mountain villages without access to refrigeration is a necessity, not a luxury. They have a variety of self deprecating terms for canned sardinas

what could be termed as "sosyal" food for them is fish tinola, which can only be had if the freshest fish is available. Next to that would be fresh meat.

A typical subsistence farmer would have maybe a pig or two and a dozen or so chickens. The chickens they would slaughter only for very special occasions, and the pigs are for selling only.

(As an aside, on occasion, in some villages, they are able to trap wild boar. I've bought wild boar meat from villagers at 80-90 pesos per portion which weighs approximately a kilo. Much cheaper than mercado-bought pork. For food connosiuers wild pig meat is very lean with very little visible fat, but the flesh is very red - as dark as horse meat, but excellent for garlicky adobo ! )