A seminar-workshop is slated on July 26th for the polishing of the Green Book sequel project undertaken by PCARRD, the College of Economics and Management (CEM)-UPLB and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA).
The event presents the PCARRD-CEM-SEARCA research initiative entitled “Facing the Challenges: Agenda for Action for the Philippine Agriculture Sector” to various stakeholders and experts for technical review and critiquing. The event to be held at PCARRD Headquarters also coincides with the 32nd Foundation Day celebration of CEM.
Touted as the Green Book sequel, the research initiative aims to analyze and provide policy recommendations on pressing policy issues besetting the Philippine agricultural sector. The first Green book presented the policy statements and programs for reforms in agriculture during the crucial time of transition under the Corazon Aquino administration.
CEM underscored that the research initiative has been prompted by “dramatic changes in economic and biophysical environments”, specifically climate change’s impact to agriculture. The research project adds to the College’s long list of valuable policy undertakings that ultimately respond to pressing economic issues of the times.
With the new administration, the research project hopes to serve as a blueprint in the crafting of an agenda for action to make the agriculture sector more competitive and resilient amid rural poverty, global climate change, and inequality. Moreover, the project is also geared towards influencing the plans and policy directions of the new administration in instituting broad and sector-specific policy reforms in the agriculture sector.
Topics to be discussed in the policy papers include agricultural productivity, rural poverty and malnutrition, supply chain of selected agricultural products, agribusiness enterprises and enterprise development, alternative energy, agrarian reform, climate change, trade policies affecting agricultural products and rural institutions.
Aside from the review of policy papers included in the Green Book sequel, the seminar-workshop will also discuss the overview of Philippine agriculture.