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FoodOmics Philippines: studying the Molecular Composition of Endemic Heirloom and Unconventional Foods in the Philippines University of Antwerp

Wout Bittremieux
ADReM Data Lab (ADReM)
The Philippines is home to a large diversity of endemic and heirloom foods, yet their nutritional and bioactive properties remain largely unexplored, limiting their potential for improving nutrition, public health, and sustainable food systems. This project seeks to uncover the molecular composition of these unique foods using advanced metabolomics and bioinformatics. As a collaborative effort, Filipino researchers will lead food sampling and ...

Philippines at the crossroads: mapping the international presence in the Philippine literary field in Spanish between 1872 and 1945. University of Antwerp

María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
The Philippines, the only country in Asia with a major cultural production in Spanish, is geographically and has been historically a spot of intersection among routes between Asia and the Spanish Speaking world. This strategic position has had two consequences: (1) the multicultural composition of its national identity and cultural production, (2) that the country has been overshadowed as place of its own, to be only a transit point in ...

Purchase of small laboratory equipment for the "Environmental Science Department", Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines Project: "Implementation of cconstructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment in the Philippines Part I: Pilot-scale Study using Ghent University

Marc Van Den Heede
Department of Applied ecology and environmental biology

The promotor of the ICP Environmental Sanitation opts for a small research fund for graduated ICP scholars employed at the same institution (i.e. the Environmental Science Department, Ateneo de Manila University). With this fund, small laboratory equipment can be pruchased for the department, so that graduates can put the acquired knowledge into practice. In the first instance, the laboratory equipment will be used in the framewordk of the ...

The Philippines and Equatorial Guinea in the Spanish Literary Production of the Early Francoism (1939-1955). University of Antwerp

Diana Arbaiza
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
This dissertation project will investigate the representations of race and gender in a selected corpus of Spanish literary works about the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea. These works were written during the early Francoism (1939-1959), a period in which Equatorial Guinea was still a Spanish territory while the Philippines, not a Spanish colony any longer, was the object of imperial nostalgia in Spain. Recent studies have examined the ...

Exploiting and exploring food upcycling for energy conservation, sustainable livelihood, and food security in the Cordillera Administrative Region of the Philippines Ghent University

Hans De Steur
Department of Agricultural Economics

This project embarks on an exploration of food losses and wastes in the vegetable industry of the CordilleraAdministrative Region in the Philippines. Marked as the country's most abundant highland farming sector, thisregion suffers acutely from multiple accounts of post-harvest losses, and these are exacerbated by the lack ofwell-defined waste management programs. The impacts of these losses are severe - ranging from decliningfarmer profits ...

The rise of non-communicable diseases, and implications for health care delivery and health programmes in the Philippines Institute of Tropical Medicine

Tony Mets, Jaime Galvez-Tan
Health Policy, Institute of Tropical Medicine
The proposed PhD research focuses on diabetes in the Philippines. Recent estimates show an increasing number of people with diabetes in the country (Shaw 2010). The implication of a growing caseload of people with chronic and lifelong conditions to the health system is poorly researched. Currently, frontline public general health services are organized to provide acute and episodic care and to deliver selected high impact interventions through ...

Fostering Gender-Inclusive Disaster Governance through the Democratization of Public Sphere and Social Innovations: The Critical Role of Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in the Philippines KU Leuven

Constanza Parra Novoa
Geography and Tourism

This PhD research explores the role of multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in fostering gender-inclusive disaster resilience governance in the Philippines, with a focus on Ormoc City and Iriga City. The study is driven by the recognition that disasters disproportionately affect women due to pre-existing gender inequalities, limiting their access to resources and decision-making spaces. While the Philippines has made ...

Thinking about Religious Education as 'Pag-alalay': A postcolonial, empirical and theological study into the theory and practice of Catholic religious education in the Philippines KU Leuven

Annemie Dillen
Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology

For contexts like the Philippines, where the majority of the people are religious and where the Catholic religion has been entangled with a history of oppression of peoples, the challenge for religious education is to reimagine both the content and methodology of religious education. Thereby it is important that it promotes inclusive care and just relations inside and outside the classroom. In dialogue with postcolonial theory, ...

Because We Need to Live: Exploring Healing at the Intersections of Trauma and Postcolonial Experience in the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines KU Leuven

Judith Gruber
Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions

In 2016, the so-called ‘war on drugs’, a nationwide anti-illegal drugs campaign in the Philippines, has resulted to thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings and thousands more of left-behind families. Among them is a group of widows, mothers and orphans in an impoverished community of Payatas B, Quezon City. How does healing take place and critically understood within this context? The study posits that the ...

Nudging consumers towards healthier rice-based diets: Estimating the value of healthier rice varieties in the Philippines Ghent University

Hans De Steur
Department of Agricultural Economics, International Rice Research Institute

Rice is integral in consumers’ diets in the Philippines. However, preference for polished white rice leads to micronutrient deficiency due to the milling process. We study how healthier rice varieties can be integrated into consumers’ rice-based diets through expert elicitation workshops, consumer surveys and experimental auctions. The results will aid policymakers in designing nutrition interventions towards healthier rice-based diets....