09/03/2021
I am privileged to be interviewing a young Filipina change maker, multi-awarded farmer, chef, entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30 Asia- Louise Mabulo of The Cacao Project.
Watch the live event on March 11, 2021.
This conversation revolves around her journey as a young farmer who helped rebuild their community after the 2016 typhoon that devastated Bicol. She taught farmers how to plant cacao, as a resilient crop and the project was able to help 200 farmers plant 70,000 cacao trees that would give them future income in the coming chocolate industry.
For short-term income replacement, Louise also gave the farmers vegetable seeds such as chillies, okra and squash to intercrop with the Cacao trees.
Louise is a young chef focusing on farm-to table approach. She is pushing a food revolution examples of which re the following:
Act as conscious consumers,
Support responsibly produced food,
Practice being grateful for our sustenance,
Switch gears on the food system by reversing the existing stigmas and social constructs on the ingredients we buy and produce (Buy those ugly looking vegetables! Purchase the ingredients that no one else buys, support farmers, promote positivity!),
Educate ourselves about where this food comes from,
Support small businesses and producers,
Stream funding into research that promotes regenerative practices,
Buy locally sourced ingredients,
And something as simple as learning how to cook!
Let us get to know more of this amazing young woman by listening to her on March 11.
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