CLSU Sustainability Summit In Agriculture – Given Climate Change, I Propose A Summit In Digital Awareness For All: An Ever-Ready Knowledge Bank

People – As a self-appointed primate communicator for Primate Change, I cannot over-emphasize it, but we have to change our agriculture; we must have Primate Change to combat Climate Change!

Central Luzon State University (CLSU) has announced via Facebook:

Greetings to all sustainability enthusiasts! The excitement is building with just (few) days remaining until CLSU's Universityhood pre-celebration event. A Sustainability Summit is on the horizon, where we will come together to explore the theme of "Charting the Path for Sustainable Agriculture in the Philippines." Save the holiday date for this insightful gathering taking place on June 17, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM at the CLSU Auditorium. Stay tuned for the unveiling of our distinguished keynote speaker!

I would have invited myself to the Summit, but at 84, I now have some difficulties, especially bad ears. Not to worry. Since CLSU is not talking about it, I keep blogging about the need for an agriculture knowledge bank.

I keep going back 2 decades back, when then-Director-General William Dar of ICRISAT proposed for Philippine agriculture via PhilRice what he called an Open Academy for Philippine Agriulture (OpAPA), a digital knowledge bank. I was recruited as PhilRice consultant; I submitted my thoughts via a digital book I wrote on knowledge bank premises: The Geography Of Knowledge (TGoK), and 2 things happened: (1) PhilRice ignored TGoK, and the PhilRice Director cut my consultancy abruptly, as my direct chief Roger Barroga informed me. Double Tigok!
(“Knowledge Bank” image from blog.plantwise.org)

OpAPA is still very much valid, if forgotten. Especially now that Climate Change is obvious and has awakened even unschooled people’s consciousness, all the more reason to spread knowledge for Primate Change, as I call it: Primate Change for Climate Change. Everyone of us must contribute to the new War of Worlds – and we hope to contribute to the overall efforts by waging a World War of Words via something like OpAPA.

Climate Change is not a joke! And it can only be won by Primate Change! The world has changed – we have to change our ways, especially in Agriculture. We have to stop Chemical Agriculture now and proceed to not only Sustainable Agriculture but better, Regenerative Agriculture – principles and practices of which are known by some old people.

“CLSU Sustainability Summit In Agriculture” – Careful now! “Sustainable” only aims to maintain and/or raise productivity to government-dictated “desirable” levels – we need more than what is officially desired.

“Regenerative Agriculture” aims to reinvigorate agriculture by eliminating the ones generating greenhouse gases that cause Climate Change – chemical fertilizers and pesticides; and assisting in the return of natural soil fertility so that crops can produce healthy soils – read “climate” – and healthy crops – read “foods”.

Let us have a knowledge bank where we can browse with our laptop, desktop, or cellphone, and get to know what we don’t know – and decide intelligently for ourselves.

Remember only: The good you find in or out of that knowledge bank must redound to the good of the people!@517