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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through the “Dynamic Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agrobiodiversity in Traditional Agro-Ecosystems of the Philippines” (ABD Project), facilitated the signing of the black box agreement between the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and representatives from the indigenous cultural communities from...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcome the support from the Government of Finland for the conduct of a study on the viability of Home-Grown School Feeding Programme in the Bangsamoro Autonomous...

FAO and the Philippines have launched a new initiative this month to teach children about the importance of managing forests sustainably to safeguard natural resources in a changing climate. Funded by Germany, and using an innovative hands-on approach, the project will develop forest education modules for children aged 9-12 to teach...

The Government of Japan has provided a total of US$ 6 million (PHP 337.5 million) to support two new initiatives by Philippine-based UN agencies: one by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and another by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), that will benefit farmers...

Blood-related they may not be, but Evangeline Kimmayong, 56, Olivia Naboy, 44, and Pinky Buhle, 34, are inextricably tied. It’s not just because they are friends and work together at the health center in their village of Barangay Cababuyan South, Hingyon municipality in the northern Philippines' highland province of Ifugao,...