My column last Thursday was Nitty-gritty, compared with GDP, and it ties in to my blog entry on Rice self-sufficiency. The comments are very interesting, and I want to ask you, the reader, to take a look at them and perhaps answer some questions:
1. Have you consumed NFA rice? If so, when? How was it? (value, taste, texture)
2. Can you tell me if NFA rice has improved/deteriorated in terms of quality and price in your area?
3. Is there a rice cartel in your area? Why do you say so (or not)?
By way of some information useful to preparing my column, take a look at these:
NCR Menu for determining the Food Threshold
Region 7 Menu
Both menus are meant to guarantee the minimum calorie/nutritional intake required for a productive existence.
This paper will be interesting for those who want to understand the reasoning that goes into the formulation of these menus:
The paper lists the government-mandated caloric and protein intake required to stay alive; and also brings up some problems involving methodology compared to how it’s done in other countries.
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September 10th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Hey Manolo, I actually attended an FNRI workshop on the menus in 2000. The participants were asked to partake of the different regional menus, but that after we had been served lunch in Shangrila. That’s how poverty workshops funded by multilateral agencies go.
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