Browsing by Author "Chiong-Javier, M. E."

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    Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watershed: Market and gender components of Philippine study
    Chiong-Javier, M. E.; Bolingot, E.; Zabala, K. K.; Verbal, X. (2008)
    The study is a four-year project launched in 2006 with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It will be undertaken until 2009 by a collaborative partnership between the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (lead institution) and multiple institutions particularly from the countries of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. The project belongs to an umbrella program called the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management-Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM-CRSP) managed by Virginia Tech.
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    Songco women biyahidors in Loverslane Market: Self-empowerment through micro vegetable entrepreneurship
    Chiong-Javier, M. E. (Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2007)
    Studies have shown that rural women in developing tropical countries continue to suffer from many gender-based inequalities and world trade policies that adversely affect their rights and control over natural and productive resources as well as their access to educational or training opportunities, agricultural services, technologies, and markets (Chiong-Javier 2006, Derrien 2004, Oliveros 1997). These women are thus not only hindered from realizing their fundamental role of providing food security and staving off poverty for their families, but also from addressing their overall personal wellbeing. Agricultural or farm women often have meager options for addressing their most basic concerns. However, for an increasing number of them, the most viable option for breaking away from some measure of marginalization and ensuring their family's continued survival is to enter the domestic sphere of micro agricultural marketing (Garcia 2004, PPI 2004).
  • Vegetable-Agroforestry Systems in the Philippines
    Catacutan, Delia C.; Mercado, Agustin R. Jr.; Chiong-Javier, M. E.; Ella, Victor B.; Espaldon, Maria Victoria O.; Rola, Agnes C.; Palada, Manuel C.; Duque-Piñon, Caroline; Saludadez, J. A.; Penaso, A. M.; Nguyen, M. R.; Pailagao, C. T.; Bagares, I. B.; Alibuyog, N. R.; Midmore, David J.; Reyes, Manuel R.; Cajilig, R.; Suthumchai, W.; Kunta, K.; Sombatpanit, Samran (Beijing, China: World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), Nairobi, Kenya: the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), 2012)
  • Women's role in agricultural production and its health consequences: Issue for research
    Chiong-Javier, M. E. (2006)
    Women have long occupied a central place in agricultural production in non-industrialized countries, underpinning food security for their households and their communities. However, it was only in the last 30 years that the importance of their role as food producers had received attention and support from international bodies and their own national governments. Spearheaded by the United Nations (UN), various international activities initially directed attention to the subject of women and food. The 1974 World Food Conference acknowledged women's contributions to the battle against world hunger. Through its declaration of 1976-1984 as the Decade for Women, the UN then introduced the concept of integrating women in development which subsequently became gender in development. The 1977 UN report 'Women in Food Production, Food Handling and Nutrition' advanced these themes in the agenda of international organizations and national agencies that were oriented or reoriented to women and gender issues. It was believed, however, that the 1979 World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development provided the turning point as it underscored greater support for women's economic roles, a methodical accounting of rural women's contribution to agriculture, and provision for women's equitable access to productive resources such as land, water, inputs, and services (FAO, 1981 cited in Holmboe-Ottesen, Mascarenhas, and Wandel 1989).