The World Bank starts today, May 8, 2017, its implementation support mission to the Department of Agriculture’s Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) with a kick-off meeting at the DA central office in Quezon City. A team of experts from the World Bank headed by Frauke Jungbluth, the lead agriculture economist and task team leader of the mission, will attend meetings and subproject site visits around the country to primarily review the achievements of the PRDP in towards the realization of its project development objectives, as well as its Global Environment Objectives under the project-integrated Global Environment Facility grant. The team will also discuss with theRead More →