The new 2021-2025 Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C) global initiative is looking for more volunteer government and non-government partners that can help boost its bid for climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovations worldwide. Through its partners, AIM4C targets increasing and accelerating investments and cooperation for realizing such bid so this initiative can better promote food security, climate health and farmers’ welfare. United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United States (US) launched AIM4C this month during the ongoing 26th UN climate conference in Scotland. Over 70 countries and organizations already joined AIM4C so far, noted UAE Minister of Climate Change and

Shekiba Sukur has been waiting for hours outside a bakery in Kabul as the impoverished Afghanistan is now grappling with cash crunch, which appears to have flown out with the exit of US forces in August after 20 years of operations. She is in queue with more than a dozen burka-clad women, waiting for someone to be generous enough to buy her bread loaves. “I wait here for three hours every day for bread,” Sukur told Anadolu Agency. The country’s economy has suffered for the past 42 years, beginning with the invasion of the country by the former Soviet Union

The city government on Tuesday called on vendors to dismantle their stalls inside the public cemetery here as groundwork for the initial phase of the area’s redevelopment project will begin soon. The city’s local environmental and natural resources office (CLENRO) announced that the remaining vendors at the Bolonsory Memorial Park have until Wednesday, November 10, to take down their stalls. In an interview with CLENRO chief Engr. Armen Cuenca said affected vendors will be provided with alternative livelihood and commercial spaces where they can put up their stalls. He said informal settlers at the cemetery have also been asked to

The Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) has dubbed as “a feat” the economy’s third-quarter performance. “It was truly a feat considering the reimposition of ECQ (enhanced community quarantine) and the typhoons in several parts of the country,” FINEX president Francis Lim said in a statement Tuesday. The economy expanded by 7.1 percent, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), from July to September –the second consecutive three-month period of expansion after posting negative prints since the first quarter of 2020. This is higher than 2020’s -11.6 percent print but lower than the upwardly revised 12 percent in the

The delivery of the 16 Polish-made S-70i “Black Hawk” combat utility helicopters in the country has been completed, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) said on Tuesday. In an interview with reporters, PAF spokesperson, Col. Maynard Mariano said the last batch of five S-70i “Black Hawk” helicopters were transported to the Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga on Monday morning. “(The last five S-70i helicopters), it was transported by an Antonov aircraft (An-124) that landed in Clark around 10:45 a.m. Again the (manufacturing) company is the PZL Mielec from Poland. (They are the company that has the license from the

Lt. Gen. Andres Centino, Philippine Army (PA) chief, said troops deployed in remote communities can help inform residents on important and ongoing government projects and programs. “Mayroong programa ang gobyerno na minsan hindi nakakaabot sa mga liblib na lugar (There are government programs that sometimes do not reach far-flung areas). Our soldiers are there. We have units na nandoon sa mga malalayong lugar (in those remote areas) so we take advantage of that by helping the government in disseminating information,” Centino said in a statement posted at the Army Facebook page on Monday night. He also said it is also