TAGBILARAN CITY -- Thirty-one advocates, trainers, and extension workers participated in the Gender-Based Training on Healthy Practices for Organic Agriculture Advocates on September 14-16, 2017 at the ATI-7 Training Complex, Cabawan District, this city.

Dr. Mechelle A. Palma, Lifestyle Medicine Specialist of Remnant Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (RILM), Iloilo City, discussed on the Lifestyle Medicine: A New Way of Thinking about Medicine and Health Care as a health paradigm in organic agriculture. She stressed that “what we eat dictates our chances of having a longer life span.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Joel Palma, also of RILM, discussed on the Modern Herb Production, Processing and Utilization. He emphasized that Herbal tourism has remarkable potential for employment generation, conservation of resources and preservation of traditional medicine practices.

Other resource persons during the training were Ms. Hyne Mae Bondoc of End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) who talked on Child Safe Tourism; Reynadez M. Lim, who shared on the Gender Issues and Biases, while Ma. Gracia Soliva-Pungay, discussed on Gender Roles, Gender Socialization, and Understanding Male and Female Differences.