By Niño Manaog
Scientists and professors, policymakers and students—all these were the key clients of the Conference on Strengthening University Programs to Enhance Water and Food Security in a Changing Climate an international summit held on Aug. 13–15, 2014 at the Visayas State University in Baybay City, Leyte.
Funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research based in Japan, the three-day conference sought to accomplish three things. First, it sought to make agriculture scientists and professors more efficient so they could help formulate more relevant policies to mainstream climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives
Second, it aimed to teach policymakers on the scientific basis of said initiatives and their implications to water and food security.
Third, it aimed to make students more aware of policies and make them more capable for policy analysis to the said field of study.
For said conference, the Capiz State University (CapSU) sent four participants, namely: Dr. Guillermo Legada, Jr., Research director; Engr. Efren Linan, intellectual property director; Dr. Ramises Solante, CapSU Burias’s dean of agriculture; and Prof. Ariel Bolledo of CapSU Pontevedra.
