Chaya Ocampo Go 8 November 2016 All around the world women are redefining what it means to lead their communities in the face of disasters and climate change. To commemorate the third year anniversary of super typhoon Yolanda, this article features the stories of women community leaders and survivors in the island of Cebu, and...
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From Pipelines to El Niño: Water Security is Survival for Indigenous and Farming Communities
Chaya Ocampo Go 22 September 2016 The most urgent work of protecting and securing water falls on those whose rights and responsibilities to it are most threatened. The most vulnerable are hardly gated communities or commercial complexes in the Philippines, nor are they likely to be white upper and middle-class neighbourhoods in North...
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Surviving Disastrous Disaster Politics
Chaya Ocampo Go August 30, 2016 Disastrous #Disaster Politics There is no such thing as a #natural disaster (see Hartman & Squires 2006). The strongest storms and the fiercest wind speeds could be called cosmic forces of nature, yet intensifying weather conditions brought about by #climate change are linked directly to human activity. The...
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Planting Rice is Never Fun — NOT!
12 August 2016 – Members of the Samahan ng Magsasaka at Mangingisda ng Nicholas (Association of Farmers and Fishermen of Nicholas) in Magsaysay town, province of Occidental Mindoro are joined by the #Southern Tagalog People’s Response Center (#STPRC) and #action medeor project staff in manually transplanting different varieties of organic rice seedlings on a trial farm. To cope with #climate...
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