Rural development based on organic and sustainable agriculture

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Farmsphere Maps & Geopositioning

The use of maps has always been a feature of importance for the ag sector. In the past, watching from above was vital for the feudal lords to have an overview of their lands and for this reason they built their homes atop the hills. This was probably also significant before that. In the last few years, GPS sof… Continue

Added by sebastian san juan on December 4, 2009 at 4:16am — No Comments

100 Best social network sites for Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

Farmsphere.com, the Food & Agribusiness meeting point, brings you the best Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness social networks.

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Added by sebastian san juan on November 18, 2009 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Bookmarks | Share your experiences on farmsphere.com!

Internet 2.0 is essentially an interactive way to share and leverage collective knowledge and bookmarking is the way to share links of interest with people who are in related businesses, by categories and tags. It is an alternative way to search the Internet, which includes the possibility of accessing previous activities by… Continue

Added by sebastian san juan on October 16, 2009 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Farmsphere.com, the first open platform oriented to Food & Agribusiness

Farmsphere is a platform designed to mimic the natural way that agribusiness professionals meet and transact business in a faster, cheaper, more efficient way. Farmsphere accomplishes this through its own website (http://www.farmsphere.com) and by enabling individuals and organizations around the world to create their own branded online professional communities. Keep informed about agr… Continue

Added by sebastian san juan on October 3, 2009 at 1:45am — No Comments

Call for Applications: Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women Business Training Program

http://bds4mes.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3464449%3ABlogPost%3A821 Check this out!!! Continue

Added by Jun Abejo on August 31, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The Global Fund for Children

Those organizations working with children and youth might be interested to explore this GRANT OPPORTUNITY. Feel free to visit its website. Please click the following link and read ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php/Apply-For-A-Grant/Eligibility-Criteria-and-Selection-Guidelines.html. Good day to all. Continue

Added by Jun Abejo on August 7, 2009 at 9:55pm — No Comments

South Korea Leases 95,000 Hectares of Philippine Farmland

by Agence France-Presse 7/16/2009 A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in the central Philippines to grow corn as part of Seoul's bid for food security, officials said Thursday. They said Jeonnam Feedstock, a company set up by South Jeolla province, signed a contract in April to lease 95,000 hectares (231,400 acres) of land for 25 years in Oriental Mindoro province. Jeonnam Feedstock plans to plant 1,000 hectares of corn for experimental purposes as early a… Continue

Added by Marisa Malapad on July 17, 2009 at 12:21am — No Comments

Guide to Rural Fundraising

This is an online resource containing, mostly American, case-studies on resource mobilization and fund-raising. I believe there are transferable lessons and tools applicable to Asian settings. It is up to the adapters to customize and fine-tune it based on existing conditions. Feel free to explore and apply. The introductory write-up is mentioned below: +++++++++++++++++++++ Guide to Rural Fundraising We are pleased to announce the new guide Rural Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Prog… Continue

Added by Jun Abejo on June 26, 2009 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Statement of Concern (Constituent Assembly)

This BLOG POST is the expression of the DANAO GOSPEL CHURCH in living up to its role as a moral conscience to the society. You may access our site at: www.danaogospelchurch.ning.com The Philippines is recently confronted with a major issue concerning the action of the Philippine Congress (House of Representatives) in approving a House Resolution seeking to convene Congress as a Constituent Assembly - preparatory act in amending the 1987 Philippine Constitution. As a Churc… Continue

Added by Michael P. Enriquez on June 10, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Subscribe to SOFII.org

SOFII is The Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration. It seeks to provide those who raise funds for charities or for charitable purposes, wherever they are, with a comprehensive, easily accessible archive of the best creative fundraising from around the world. And it’s free to fundraisers and others working in the fundraising/ nonprofit area. All the information on this site has been compiled to inform, guide and help fundraisers when preparing thei… Continue

Added by Jun Abejo on June 8, 2009 at 11:07am — No Comments

OUTRAGED OVER CON-ASS

Yesterday at 5:08pm For Immediate Release STOP Cha Cha Secretariat: Leah Navarro 0917-898-1957 OUTRAGED OVER CON-ASS We are outraged! We protest and decry the brazen move by the majority faction of the House of Representatives, notwithstanding some dissension within its ranks, to pass Resolution 1109 upon the orders of Malacanang. It is clear that the HOR has been representing the interests of the Palace all along. This is survival at all cost. The House Majority is violating the constituti… Continue

Added by Ramon Kahulugan on June 4, 2009 at 10:27am — No Comments

A fund-raising course with a possibility of getting a $150,000 grant for libraries

I received an email from a friend informing me of a fund-raising course with an attached possibility of getting a $150,000 grant for a library from a major American foundation. Unfortunately, the email message did not specify the name of the American grant-maker. I am posting this for RDA members who might be interest in exploring and possibly attending it. You might find the P7,500 course price affordable for you and your organization. This is not an endorsement. It is FOR YOUR INFORMATION. It… Continue

Added by Jun Abejo on May 29, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Urgent Call for Help & Solidarity for Helen Caraca

May 2009

Dear Friends! This is an urgent call for help for Helen Caraca, human rights worker and development activist, who is suffering from Ileocolic Intussusception and is set to undergo surgery in the last week of May 2009 in a public hospital in Cebu. We have known Helen as a devoted… Continue

Added by RDA on May 20, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Ten Commandments for the Environment

Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has insisted on the importance of placing the view of nature within the context of the relationship between God and the human person. Bishop Crepaldi defends that the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church steers a middle course between the twin errors of either seeing nature in absolute terms or reducing it to a mere instrument. Nature has been placed in the hands of mankind, but should be used respo… Continue

Added by Ramon M. Policarpio on May 13, 2009 at 12:29pm — No Comments

8th International Social Communication Cinema Conference 2009 selected a documentary by Susanta Biswas

The Government of India as a part of its state planning under the eleventh plan is promoting Small and Medium Enterprise to enhance the rural income and ensure rural development. National Afforestation and Eco-development Board as a working body of Ministry of Environment and Forests, is facilitating Joint Forest Management Committees for their sustenance by implementing seven Small and Medium Forest Enterprise pilot projects through its Regional Centres in seven different regions. The Regional… Continue

Added by SUSANTA BISWAS on May 12, 2009 at 3:32pm — No Comments

The truth about Swine Flu

source: http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic Last week the flu was all that we talked about -- Mexico has been nearly paralysed and across the world leaders halted air travel, banned pork imports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the question becomes where it came from and how we stop another outbreak. Smithfield Corporation, the largest pig producer in the world whose farm is being fingered as the source of the… Continue

Added by RDA on May 6, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

ORGANIC LEGISLATION PUBLIC FORUM

The different organic sectors in the country will proactively participate to create involvement of the STAKEHOLDERS’ ONE ORGANIC MOVEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES thru an ORGANIC LEGISLATION PUBLIC FORUM as their initial rallying and convergence point for a broad based dialogue with the authors of the House Bill # 3123, 4746 & 52 & Senate Bill #9876 on April 24, 2pm at the AANI Herbal Garden & Livelihood Center, Quezon Memorial Circle, Quezon City. Participants to the Organic Legislation… Continue

Added by RDA on April 22, 2009 at 1:29pm — No Comments

REcognition Day of LFFS

april 7, 2009 will be the recognition day of Lanao Family Farm School in Sultan Naga Dimaporo, LdN. Continue

Added by Jojie Catherine R. Alangilan on April 2, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Is it possible to have a rural development advocates block voting for candidates who advocate Rural development in 2010 election?

Maybe but.......... Continue

Added by RDA on March 26, 2009 at 9:37pm — No Comments

Low Carbon Energy Roadmap, World Watch Report 178

Hi fellow advocates, Please see attached an informative and well researched material that provides an alternative strategic thinking towards addressing the pressing global concern on climate change on the perspective of revolutionalizing the carbon-based energy sector, being among the main culprit of the global warming, alongside with the corrective measures on farming and land use patterns to cool the planet. A sequel on the shared material "state of the world" published by the same renowned r… Continue

Added by Penpen Libres on March 4, 2009 at 7:05pm — No Comments