Agriculture and Trade

MODE/PNLC Philippines participates in 29th FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Bangkok, Thailand - The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) held the 29th Regional Conference for Asia and The Pacific (FAORAP Conference) last March 26-31, in Bangkok, Thailand.Around 150 delegates from 33 countries participated in the conference.   Read More

Local Economy Development

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

Official Development Assistance

Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness A Briefing Paper, The realization of women’s rights and empowerment is a key prerequisite to a nation’s growth. This perspective has been recognized and advanced by civic movements and various stakeholders of different societies around the globe. For more than 30 years now, landmark...   Read More

Agrarian Reform

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

 

MODE participates in ISDR 2009

MODE participated in the 15th International Sustainable Development Research Conference held in Utrecht, The Netherlands on July 5-8, 2009. The organization is represented by two members of its Board of Trustees, Aurora A. Regalado and Jocelyn F. Cajiuat.

The conference was hosted by the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) and the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation.

The conference motto is "Taking up the Global Challenge: Analyzing the implementation of innovations and governance for sustainable development". The Conference focused on the scientific analysis of the key factors explaining successes (and failure) in the many practices of implementation of innovations and governance for sustainable development in the North, South, West and the East. Read More

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     *  Abstract nr. 998:  Communities survival and coping mechanisms in flood-prone KAMANAVA, Metro Manila
     *  Abstract nr. 770:  The confluence of Fair Trade and organic movements: A small producers’ perspective in South India.
 

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