Melissa L. Alado
Melissa L. Alado serves as Country Director in the Philippines for the USAID-funded Cooperative Development Program and ACDI/VOCA’s country representative …
Cooperative Reenergizes Solar-Powered Rice Mill with USAID and One Meralco Foundation
In Barangay Kidawa, located in the heartland of Laak, a municipality on the island of Mindanao in Southern Philippines, a …
Reflections on Philippine Coffee Program: Charting a Course with Local Partners for Continued Sector Growth
As a champion of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA), ACDI/VOCA prioritizes bringing together partners to discuss what works, what doesn’t, …
Five Years of Transforming the Philippines Coffee Sector (Videos)
From 2018 to 2023, Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PhilCAFE) supported coffee market actors in producing and selling more …
Q&A with Program Leader in the Philippines on Transforming Cooperatives into Agri-Businesses
Alfred Allaga is country director of the Cooperative Development Program (CDP) in the Philippines, funded by USAID and led by …
41 Philippine Co-Ops Team Up with USAID’s Cooperative Development Program
This post is authored by Felipe Cook, a Leland Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center working with ACDI/VOCA. On September …
How a Women’s Cooperative is Leading the Way for Specialty Coffee in the Philippines
The foothills of Mount Apo are home to the Philippines’s growing specialty coffee industry. Specialty coffee is at the heart …
“Empowering Women in Coffee: The MILALITTRA Experience”
The video features the Talaandig People of Bukidnon Province in the southern Philippines, who developed a successful coffee enterprise through …
George C. Dalire
Deputy Chief of Party of the Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise Project
USDA PhilCAFE Project Encourages Youth Engagement in Agriculture
In the Philippines, the average age of a farmer is 56 years old. Many government institutions in the country are …
PhilCAFE: Transforming the Coffee Sector in the Philippines
Philippines Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PhilCAFE) was a five-year program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and implemented …
