MODE ATTENDS THE 2011 ASEAN FOOD SECURITY CONFERENCE What is the role of the private sector in increasing food production, in reducing post harvest losses and in improving rural market linkages? This was the focus of the 2nd ASEAN Food Security Conference held in the Phils... Read More

DEVELOPING LOCAL ECONOMIES
SOME BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES USEFUL IN DESIGNING AND FOCUSING OUR ECONOMIC PROGRAM, What constitutes an economy? Economics is the branch of social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management. Scarcity is central to the study of economics. Economic analysis examines how people choose to use limited or scarce resources in an attempt to satisfy their unlimited needs and wants in a very finite world.  Read More

A CLOSER LOOK INTO THE KAPIT BISIG LABAN SA KAHIRAPAN, This case study generally aimed at presenting the KALAHI CIDSS (KC) Project as the flagship poverty reduction program of the government. More specifically, it documented and analyzed the lessons from the experience of a KALAHI CIDSS....   Read More

Farmers' Group prod Congress to enact CARP Extension with Reforms Bill, Hundreds of farmers and advocates belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM), a broad coalition calling for the extension and reform of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), held a picket-rally last Wednesday at the House of Representatives during the House Committee on Agrarian Reform's public hearing on proposed bills to extend the agrarian reform program. Read More