Wednesday, July 31, 2024

FOOD CRISIS Series 40 Advocacies to Curb the Global Food Crisis

 FOOD CRISIS Series 

40 Advocacies to Curb the Global  Food Crisis 

These articles were published in this Blog avrotor blogspot.com in 2021 and 2022 at the onset of food shortages worldwide at various critical levels. This is a reprint in response to popular requests.

Even to the present, there is crisis in local sugar supply affecting many industries, services and products, from beverage to bakery products.  Rice supply is critically low and the price, in spite of government intervention, is hardly within the means of ordinary citizens.  So with onions, selected vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, and other food products, which continue to spiral with the current inflation rate, exacerbated  by the Russian war in Ukraine, and conflicts in many parts of the globe,  COVID-19 pandemic, and global warming. 

At one time, the world had just 10 weeks’ worth of wheat left. In less than three weeks, wheat could disappear from store shelves, suggested a food insecurity expert to the United Nations. 05/29/2022 / By Ethan Huff (Sources of news Insider.com; NaturalNews.com

Easy Access to these articles: Search FOOD CRISIS, or print each title in this Blog - view screen, read, and print. Practice these advocacies within your capacity and share them with your  family and community. - avrotor


Dr Abe V Rotor
avrotor.blogspot.com

1 - Food Crisis Series 1 to 4:  People's Green Revolution in 5 Parts, 
     including a Self-administered Test on Green Revolution  
5 - Love the Bahay Kubo (Nipa Hut) - Bastion of Food Self-Sufficiency

 
                                         Acknowledgement with thanks,  Internet photos

            6 - Food Crisis Series 7:  Farmers' Museum (NFA Grains Museum) 
                 Re-opened  After 30 Years. In honor of the Filipino Farmer
            7 - Save Rice: Let's Cut Down Rice Wastage and Develop Rice Substitutes. 
                 Don't waste food, don't. 
            8 - Genetic Engineering (GMO) is not the Solution to Food Shortage
            9 - Can the Philippines Regain its Fame in the 70s as Rice Exporter?
           10 - Men Behind Food Self- Sufficiency and Rice Exportation

           11 - Promote Agribusiness and Biotechnology on the Village Level
           12 - Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer for your Home Garden
           13 - Let's Stop Generic Pollution - Littering of Engineered Genes
           14 - Home Gardening - Buffer Against Spiraling Prices of Food and 
                  Other Commodities 
           15 - The Garden - Microcosm of the Living World and Humanity

           16 - Let's Save Our Deteriorating Planet Earth - 20 Vital Issues
           17 - Garden Pond: Source of Food and Recreation
           18 - Food Poisoning - Look Out!
           19 - Herbals for Medicine, Culinary and Pest Control
           20 - Simplify Food Preparation for Good Health, Enjoyment and Economy

           21 - Thirty (30) Native Vegetables Resistant to Global Warming and Pest
           22 -  More and More People are Going for Natural Food
           23 - Kitchen Garden - Practical Hydroponics
           24 - Sustainable Productivity - Key to Profitable Agriculture and 
                  Balanced Environment
           25 - Food Crisis Series 25 Yes, we can grow wheat in the Philippines
                  Let's revive the local wheat production program.

           26 - Palay-isdaan (Rice-Fish Culture)  An Agro-Ecology Model 
           27-  Let's develop the less popular Philippine fruits.  
           28 - Non-cash technology for small farms
           29 - The  Noble Practice of Gleaning
           30 - Be Sure the Food You Eat is Safe 

           31-  Golden Homesite Plan of Ed Nanquil 
           32 - Are you living an austere life?  A Self-evaluation, 25 items
           33 - Farming is a Way of Living, a Mode of Life 
           34 - Farming the Sea (Sea Vegetables)
           35 - A Happy Couple and the Kurong-kurong

 
                                                                                                                 Internet photos

           36 - The world goes for Organic Farming- a turnaround in Green Revolution
           37 - Stop pests from robbing your food: Practical Pests Control and Integrated 
                  Pests Management (IPM) 
           38 - Backyard Garden - Food Bank and Living Laboratory 
           39 - Five Trends in Agriculture Today
           40 - Agro-Ecology: Balancing Agriculture and Ecology for Sustainable
                  Productivity
            
Dr Rotor is a retired Director of the National Food Authority (1976-1989); consultant on Food and Agriculture,  Senate of the Philippines (1992-95); Professor,  Graduate School University of Santo Tomas; De La Salle University-D, SPU-QC and UPH-R, and presently, a gentleman farmer in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.
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2021 Global Report on Food Crises 

The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes. The number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence. The report is produced by the Global Network against Food Crises (which includes WFP), an international alliance working to address the root causes of extreme hunger.

Earlier this month, the humanitarian organization Oxfam released alarming statistics that measured the state of the food crisis after one year of the pandemic. Every minute, eleven people on the planet die of hunger. The number of people experiencing famine-like conditions globally has increased by six times in the past year.

Areas where corruption, inequality, and suffering have finally boiled over into war experience the worst aspect of the food crisis. In those areas where distribution and supply lines are severed, the food crisis has perpetuated beyond any semblance of control. In mid-June 2021, the number of people falling into the most acute phase of the famine stood at 521,814 across Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan, and Yemen – up from 84,500 last year, an increase of more than 500 percent, according to the global report on Food Crises 20

 
                                                                                                                     Internet photos

A July report from Oxfam states 155 million people worldwide now live at crisis levels of food insecurity or worse – some 20 million more than last year. About two-thirds of them face hunger because their country is in military conflict. In the 55 food-crisis countries under review, almost 16 million children under age five were acutely malnourished, while 75.2 million children under age five experienced stunted growth. ~

"Covid-19 pandemic risks worst global food crisis in decades." -  New Scientist

Monday, July 29, 2024

A Tour at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

A Tour at the Living with Nature Center
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Part 1 - Art Gallery and Museum
UNP Coeds Visit the Living with Nature Center
and San Vicente Botanical Garden

Dr Abe V Rotor

Nature's art. A driftwood in the shape of a blackbird,
reminiscent of Noah's Ark story - an emissary he sent to check the flood but didn't return. He sent another, this time a dove, the universal symbol of peace today.

Catch the fish if you can on the wall, painted into a mural depicting
the enigma of the bottom of the sea, for lack of knowledge seemingly
lifeless, yet full of life and challenge to the scientist.

Springs and waterfalls gently flowing open like curtain of a stage
revealing a beautiful landscape, subject of poetry, music, myths
and legends.

Painted broken jars given a second life, function to aesthetics, in our search for beauty and meaning of material things in our wastefulness and affluent living - brokenness after all is transformation, so with life.

Petrified wood of a primitive tree traces path of evolution and biodiversity; pyroclastic rock from Mt Pinatubo's 1991 eruption, link of past and present, reality and fantasy, nature and man.

A dragon emerges from a broken jar transforms into a myth in like manner dragons once walked the earth; burial jar fragments of an indigenous culture destined to the museum and archive.

UNP Coeds 5 trek the edge of the sea; frame a wall of cataract in
make-believe mural painted by the author. ~

Part 2 - The Living with Nature Center Library
Collection of Books and References




Part 3 - Rock Collection: Study and Hobby

Petrified or fossilized wood. Carbon dating process traces
the origin, age, and habitat of the specimen.

Resin, exudate of Pine tree undergoing metamorphism into amber

Aggregate rocks in various compositions and structures.

Unidentified layered rock, indicating geologic
history.

This is not a fossil, but broken glazed jar often used to store sacred
objects and remains, like an urn in earlier times.

Soft wood fossil broken into two to find out what is really its interior made of.

Not so perfectly round but it served as canon ball in early times.
Picked from a dry river bed, this specimen is a result of continuous
and even abrasion as it travelled downstream.

Fo
Limestone undergoing metamorphism into marble which
may take a very long time under favorable conditions.

Rock collection of a student attracted by the diversity of the specimens.

Brain coral in its early stage of fossilization.

Operculum of a large seashell undergoing erosion by the elements.
Note the counterclockwise spiral, a unique find.

Shades of opal and glitter often make this petrified wood look
valuable when cut and polished, and made into fancy jewelry.

This chalky fossil looks like elephant's task.
Did elephants roam the countryside in prehistoric times?

Early stone age tools, crude and unpolished,
but they served the purpose of hunting.

Mt Pinatubo's pyroclastic rock mounted for the museum.
The rock formed while still very hot, forming a porous texture. ~

 
Floral arrangement of stones gathered from Bacnotan, La Union beach.

A collection of rock samples at author's home.

Part 4 - Lectures, Workshops and Researches

 


Part 5 - Botanical Garden and Ecological Sanctuary


Part 6 - Icons in the Garden



Rizal in Dapitan Shrine
National hero Jose Rizal is depicted biologist and naturalist while he was
on exile at Dapitan.


Apo Baket' Shrine
Holder of time-honored tradition and values, passed on
from generation to generation.


The Unknown Nanny Shrine
A nanny works with babies, toddlers, and young children, focusing on their basic care needs and supporting their development. Her role in wartime is crucial to orphaned children and widowed mother. Throughout history the unknown nanny who is also considered on a higher scale governess is considered guardian and second mother in the home. In times of war she is the unsung domestic hero so to speak, like the Unknown Soldier in the battlefield.


Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine Emilio Aguinaldo fought for a free and independent Philippines, first against Spain and then against the United States. When the Philippines declared itself an independent republic in 1898 and Aguinaldo became its president, a significant milestone was reached in the struggle against colonial rule in Asia.


Apparition of Mary before Bernadette at Lourdes
Our Lady appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, 18 times from February through July, 1858. During the apparitions she told Bernadette to dig a hole which later in the day produced a stream of water, bringing about thousands of spiritual and physical cures even to this day. Replica of the grotto dedicated to the 1917 Marian Apparition that took place in Fatima, Portugal, in loving memory of the author's sister, Sr Venie V Rotor, ofs.

Part 7 - Features of the Living with Nature Center
Rotor Family Home
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Contact: Dr Abercio V Rotor avrotor.blogspot.com

1. Renovated old home (survived typhoons, earthquakes, other calamities, WWII) for four generations.

2. San Vicente Botanical Garden – living gene bank, shrine, outdoor classroom.

3. Living with Nature (Center), advocacy, hands-on, on-site learning

4. Community-based (visits, tours, workshops, research, practicum)

5. Refuge (respite, retirement, recuperation, balikbayan, childhood experience)

6. EcoSanctuary - Wildlife habitat, orchard, open field, local ecosystems

7. Natural for healthy and happy living (food, air, herbals, pets, sense of freedom)

8. Family museum (library, archive, souvenirs, achievements, paraphernalia)

9. “The Morning After Syndrome” - preparedness for the worst upheaval (COVID-19)

10. Exodus from the City (reversal from traffic, congestion, high cost of living)

11. Right brain shift (creativity, hobbies, nature-friendly)

12. Integrated and holistic (The Humanities, back-to-basics, skills development)

13. You are not alone (“So far yet so near,” the world at the living room)

14. Ecological prayer (Love God through Nature, Nature is God’s greatest gift)

15. Don’t be a victim of Instant Syndrome (DiY, home garden, cookbook)

16. Save, save from impulse buying, planned obsolescence, ostentatious living.

17. Be simple and practical (countryside living, bayanihan, kamag-anak)

18. The golden years of life (It’s not too late, you are missing life itself)

19. Yes, you can paint, cook, build your home, do the things you dreamed of.

20. Search for the meaning of life (Learn from Victor Frankl, Schweitzer, Rizal)

Globally linked on the Internet avrotor.blogspot.com in 5000 articles to date. Search topic, download, print for your educational use in your school, community, and organization. Linked with 12 books written by AV Rotor, Bannawag magazine, (Okayka Apong), other websites. Welcome to the Living with Nature Center and San Vicente Botanical Garden. Contact - 09954672990

Part 8 - Research Topics for Thesis, Dissertation, Special Problem, and Practicum


1. Displaced People and Communities
2. Post-Modernism in Philippine Context
3. "To conserve Nature, leave Nature alone."
4. Green Wash: Ecology's Mask
5. Globalization and Sunset of Nationalism

6. Sex tourism - how widespread is it?
7. Depression and suicide claim more affluent victims than ordinary citizens. Is this true?
8. The Disappearing Rainforest and Lost Knowledge
9. Talipapa - People's Mall
10. Changing Image of the Filipina

11. “Rent-a-uterus” (Surrogate Mothers)
12. NSTP - has it achieved its purpose?
13. Opposition to Technology
14. Reviving the Indigenous games and Sports in the Philippines
15. Pornography on the Internet

16. Divisoria - Bagsakan Capital
17. Body Beautiful trends
18. Scavengers - their Hopes and Dreams
19. The Fine Art of Propaganda
20. Homogenization and Loss of Cultural Diversity

21. Social Change and the Natural Environment
22. Age of Robotics
23. Wireless Technology: Impact on school children
24. Endangered Ecosystems
25. Social and Pandemic Human Diseases

26. High rise buildings around UST and other schools -
There ought to be a law.
27. Neocolonialism in the corporate world
28. Sari-sari store, no corner has without. So with the talipapa
29. Tricycle world - a Sub-culture. So with the korong korong
30. Phaseout the Jeepney - Rolling Coffin

31. Working students: Joys and Travails
32. Plastics are banned - ways to make the campaign effective?
33. Wanted Kidney
34. Made in China – Anticipated obsolescence
35. Unsolved killing of media men in the Philippines.

36. The problem of the new general curriculum
37. Gene Therapy: Frontier of Today’s Medicine
38. Vatican and Conservatism
39. Born to Buy (Bilmoko)
40. Natural food is in

41. China: Socialism to Capitalism
42. Relocating Marginal Communities
43. The Expanding Field of Bioethics
44. Unsung heroes
45. Philippines dubbed Rip Van Winkle of Asia?

46. Philippines tops crime rate, graft and corruption, in Asia.
47. Autotoxicity: We are poisoning ourselves
48. Natural Farming: A Return to Tradition
49. Obesity now an epidemic
50. Mind Benders (Brain Drugs)

51. One-dish Meal vs Fast Food
52. Aftermath of the Cold War
53. Unsolved Murders of Philippine Journalists
54. Life under the bridge
55. Herbal medicine – a Thing of the Past

56. Longevity Trends - Effects on Society
57. Single parenthood: Planned or Circumstance
58. Effects of TV and Computers on child development
59. The Sunset of Fine Arts
60. Sustainable Environment - what is it really?

61. Fish Kill in Laguna Bay and Taal Lake 
62. Frankenfood
63. Threatened and Endangered Species
64. Pollution-Related Diseases
65. Effect of the Ozone Hole

66. Whatever happened to Piso sa Pasig
67. Can genetic engineering save man from hunger?
68. Can man conquer aging?
69. Will man become immortal?
70. Are we in our sunset as a species?

71. Computer Addiction
72. Giant billboards - freedom of expression or violation of human rights?
73. Can man live alone, like in Castaway?
74. How many people can Metro Manila accommodate?
75. Allergy - global epidemic

76. Confession of a drug addict
77. Overcrowded prisons.
78. Child Labor: Chinese and Filipinos compared
79. Electricity is most expensive in the Philippines
80. Golden Years and Post-retirement

81. Cryonics - Man's Hope of Resurrection
82. Pet therapy
83. Third sex in the entertainment world
84. Bad advertisements in the Philippines
85. Rolling Billboards on buses

86. Tiangge and UK2
87. The New UST Campus
88. Longevity and Early Death
89. Effects of Telenobela
90. University without Walls

91. Flower shops at Dangwa, Dimasalang
92. NLEX Clover, Balintawak: bagsakan of farm products
93. Quiapo - where miracles happen, from herbal healing
to fortune telling
94. Anticipating the Big One (Earthquake Intensity 7 Plus)
95. Buhay sa Bahay Kubo


96. The Controversial K to 12 Education Program
97. Political Dynasty - A Social Hydra
98. ISIS - Radical Concept of New Nation
99. Racism is Alive
100. Deadly COVID-19, MERS-CoV, HIV and Ebola PHOTO

*Dr Rotor is a former professor UST, DLSU-D, SPU-QC, UPH-LP. He also served as research adviser and critic, and panel member in these and other institutions.

            Part 9 - Earth Day Celebration at the Garden                                      Ecology in the Unifying Element of World Peace 

Over the past decades, over 193 countries have observed the Earth Day celebration—empowering local communities, students, and governments to create a positive change for the planet, charging forward with the popular slogan, think globally, act locally. Internet
 
 
Ecological Ecumenism through Children's Art Workshop 
in expressing love and reverence in God and Nature.
Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Ilocos Sur


Art Workshop for Children before a wall mural by the author in his family
residence (Living with Nature Center) in San Vicente Ilocos Sur, 2017,