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==DA-EU Program Benefits 40,000 Households== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/356600/daeu-program-benefits-40000-households | |||
*April 9, 2012, 4:39pm | |||
:by PHOEBE JEN INDINO | |||
SILAGO, Southern Leyte– A food security program sponsored by the European Union, Germany-based Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) has benefited over 40,000 poor households in Eastern Visayas. | |||
The program, named Enhancement of Food Security in the Visayas (EFOS), which was implemented by the Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Internationale Zummenarbeit (GIZ), and which ended early this year, was designed to sustainably increase food security, and agricultural, fisheries and forestry productivity in the region, with special focus on Eastern Visayas. | |||
GIZ operates in more than 130 countries worldwide with most of its work commissioned by the BMZ | |||
EFOS was comprised of four project components, namely, natural resources governance, infrastructure through cash-for-work, productivity and production enhancement, and crop insurance. | |||
EFOS Senior Adviser Alex Tabada said the program’s cash-for-work covered over 12,000 households in 24 towns, earning some P35 million in wages. | |||
That particular program component paved way for the creation of 62-kilometers of farm-to-market roads and 40 kilometers of upland foot trails including 11.4 kilometers of communal irrigation canals supporting some 933 hectares of ricelands. | |||
==Communities extract 170,000 Crown Of Thorns Starfish in Limasawa, Padre Burgos and Maasin City== | ==Communities extract 170,000 Crown Of Thorns Starfish in Limasawa, Padre Burgos and Maasin City== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281333674402 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281333674402 | ||
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In Maasin City alone, the local government unit–initiated extraction got a total of 23,000 COTS collected March 27, 2012, she added. | In Maasin City alone, the local government unit–initiated extraction got a total of 23,000 COTS collected March 27, 2012, she added. | ||
She noted that extraction of COTS most of the times were stalled due to the lack of funds in order to mobilize the community to join in the extraction along their barangays. (ldl/esg/PIA8 SoLeyte) | She noted that extraction of COTS most of the times were stalled due to the lack of funds in order to mobilize the community to join in the extraction along their barangays. (ldl/esg/PIA8 SoLeyte) | ||
==Over a thousand slots await “summer jobbers” in So. Leyte== | ==Over a thousand slots await “summer jobbers” in So. Leyte== | ||