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 …
Year-In-Review: Growth in the Philippine Coffee Sector
Since the program began in 2018, Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PhilCAFE) has been striving to help increase the …
300 Filipino Youth Form 4H Club with USDA And Local Support
In Tagbina, a town located in the Philippines’s Surigao del Sur, 300 young coffee farmers and students organized themselves as …
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 …
PhilCAFE Coffee Mentors Help Filipino Farmers Improve Production
In the Philippines, “coffee mentors” are lending their expertise to other coffee growers in a bid to improve farming practices. …
USDA-Supported Filipino Coffee Farmers Break Record Prices in Auction
Filipino coffee farmers who won at this year’s Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC) earned record prices during the online auction, …
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 …
