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AGREA Philippines and Thailand's Dr. Pump & Engineering signed one of 29 AFSA joint ventures at the ASEAN Food Security and Agribusiness Summit 2026 in Manila. The twenty-ninth agreement, and what it is for On 10 October 2026, at LandBank Plaza in Malate, Manila, twenty-nine cross-border joint ventures were formalised through a memorandum of understanding under the ASEAN Food Security Alliance. They spanned high-value crops, rice, agricultural inputs and biotechnology, and ag

Del Carmen's FARM-TO-SPOON won its third Galing Pook Award, while Matanog's WOW-Matanog reached the national finalists. What each result means. A morning at Malacañang, and a list of nineteen On 21 October 2026, in the Ceremonial Hall of Malacañang Palace, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. conferred the 2026 Galing Pook Awards. Ten local governance programs received plaques and ₱300,000 each from the Department of the Interior and Local Government. The ceremony fell within Lo

AGREA's Cherrie Atilano joined ADB and Plan International's 6th Asia and the Pacific Youth Symposium to argue that young people should choose agriculture because they see a future in it. The sentence that reframes the problem "Young people should choose agriculture not because they have no other choice, but because they see a future in it." Ms. Cherrie Atilano, Founding Farmer of AGREA, offered that formulation at the 6th Asia and the Pacific Youth Symposium, convened by the