food security

Women Nourishing Cities: Recipes for transforming the urban food systems of the Philippines

May 6, 2024

The Food Hives to Nourishing Cities Project is being implemented by Oxfam Pilipinas, together with partners Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) and AGREA Agricultural Communities International Foundation Inc. The project aims to establish regenerative, just, and nourishing food systems. This document is an abridged version of a report prepared by Dante Dalabajan for Oxfam Pilipinas.

Gerondio Ayson is 54 years old. He lives in Esperanza, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. He is married to Teodora (also 54). they have 4 children who have all now left home. They take care of two grandchildren. Jerondio and Teadora are both vegetable and rice farmers and have half an acre of vegetable gardens. They inter-crop a huge variety of veg including cucumber, green beans, peppers, jute, loofah, green chilli, eggplant, squash and banana. They learned about inter-cropping and making organi" title="Gerondio Ayson is 54 years old. He lives in Esperanza, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. He is married to Teodora (also 54). they have 4 children who have all now left home. They take care of two grandchildren. Jerondio and Teadora are both vegetable and rice farmers and have half an acre of vegetable gardens. They inter-crop a huge variety of veg including cucumber, green beans, peppers, jute, loofah, green chilli, eggplant, squash and banana. They learned about inter-cropping and making organic fertilizers at Oxfam's Climate Resiliency Field Schools. Jerondio used to only farm rice but after a stroke he decided to move to the lower lands and start growing vegetables as well. The work is better suited to his health as cultivating paddy requires long days working in the sun but vegetable gardening can be done at night when it's cooler. Photo: Tessa Bunney/ Oxfam

Private Sector Investments in Land for Food and Biofuels: Investing in rural development or aggravating hunger and poverty?

September 18, 2020

  The magnitude of ongoing and planned agricultural investments, as well as the positive and negative impacts that such investments have brought about in the past, call attention to the need to provide safeguards to local small farmers and smallholders wanting to involve themselves in such deals. In particular, the current regulatory framework guiding agricultural […]