Palayamanan as a strategy in promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture
2018
Corales, R.G. | Rivera, J.M. | Sajor, J.T. | Gabriel, D.A. | Tan, M.A.C. | Corales, A.M.
One of the world's greatest challenges today is achieving food and nutrition security. In the Philippines, many Filipinos are also suffering from lack of food and malnutrition due to high poverty and low income and despite in the steady increases in the Gross Domestic Product over the years. This concern is further aggravated by frequent man-made and natural disasters affecting mostly the poor. Food and nutrition security concerns can be addressed with the production of sufficient, available, accessible and affordable safe and diverse nutritious food to meet the population's dietary requirements and food preferences in an environmentally sustainable manner. Palayamanan which was initiated by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is an innovative rice-based production system model that employs crop diversification, intensification, and integration to increase farm productivity and income of farm families in a sustainable manner. It also helps empower and enhance climate change resiliency of rural farm families. Palayamanan produced diverse food products such as cereals, root crops, vegetables, fruits, foods of animal origin and mushroom in a continuous and sustainable manner thus ensuring the availability, accessibility and affordability of nutritious safe food to people in the rural communities. With this, Palayamanan can qualify as a strategy in promoting nutrition sensitive agriculture in the rural communities.
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