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Urban Agriculture: A Solution To Mitigate The Air Pollution in Selected Locations in Manila

This project proposal aims to establish urban agriculture programs in select locations in Manila to help mitigate air pollution. The proposal outlines issues related to air pollution in Manila and advocates for urban agriculture as a solution. Key programs proposed include street planting and post-harvest processing. The main beneficiaries would be Manila residents, tourists, and students. A budget of 78,600 pesos is presented to cover costs of materials, equipment, and personnel needed to implement the programs.

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Urban Agriculture: A Solution To Mitigate The Air Pollution in Selected Locations in Manila

This project proposal aims to establish urban agriculture programs in select locations in Manila to help mitigate air pollution. The proposal outlines issues related to air pollution in Manila and advocates for urban agriculture as a solution. Key programs proposed include street planting and post-harvest processing. The main beneficiaries would be Manila residents, tourists, and students. A budget of 78,600 pesos is presented to cover costs of materials, equipment, and personnel needed to implement the programs.

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ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
900 San Marcelino St., Ermita,
Manila 1000

PROJECT PROPOSAL:

URBAN AGRICULTURE: A SOLUTION TO


MITIGATE THE AIR POLLUTION IN
SELECTED LOCATIONS IN MANILA

PRESENTED BY:

ABULENCIA, SEALTIEL ANGELO MAUHA


ADAZA, EARL TOYOGON
ESCOBER, CARLOS GENER CUNANAN
LIMPAO, NHUR ALDEN LANTIO
MODEDIN, JED MYER SALADO
ROSARIO, NELTON JHON LIGAYA
Neediness and nourishment security are the most squeezing issues that legislature has to
address with direness. Conscious of these issues, the present organization has set its attention on
nourishment security and neediness easing as a fundamental objective and a need agendum. In
the Philippines, horticulture is packed in rustic regions. Urban places are simply most loved
market outlets of the results of rustic horticulture. On occasion, counterfeit deficiencies of
country horticulture items are felt in urban focuses inferable from advertise techniques or for
different motivations to incorporate inclination of dealers to showcase the items at the point
when they could get progressively attractive benefit. Urban agribusiness is by all accounts the
sensible way to deal with facilitating issue of nourishment shortage in focuses of populace. It
implies the generation of nourishment or agrarian items is done inside the limits of the urban
areas, which may likewise incorporate populace focuses in clamoring towns. Families or sorted
out gatherings do in and around homes, open network or open spaces even in housetops the
creation in accessible spaces.

In conclusion, setting up a urban horticulture venture or holder cultivating could give


nourishing and financial advantages to urban occupants just as to the quality of life for millions
or urban inhabitants and encourage a feeling of accomplishment and expectation.

I. ISSUES/CONCERNS

The air pollution in Manila is significantly deteriorating day after day. Without proper
attention to this worsening matter, this problem would create heavier impacts on the city of
Manila and its people. There are many factors that contribute to air pollution in Manila such as
the constant carbon emissions produced by the many vehicles, the harmful toxins produced by
the factories, and various human activities causing harm to the environment. If these problems
persist in the society, it would greatly harm the state of the quality of air in Manila which would
have branching out negative effects such as damaging the environment, health hazards, and poor
quality of lifestyle. Thus this issue must be addressed immediately.

The Philippines is one of the developing countries around the world that deals with
investment to its neighbouring countries. But because of poor awareness and regulations, it
affects some investment needs. Emission charges offer less budgetary progress of achieving air
quality development. In this case, it puts the people in the Philippines works in polluted area that
could harn one self’s health condition that resulting of decreasing productivity. Improving the
health awareness of its labor force can create competitive edge.
Many countries in asia are developing their environmental awareness and policies for people
to understand what’s happening in their surroundings, Manila can also develop interms of
environmental issues, if only they will take an action and where to focus on. (Ambag R., 2018)

According to Krupnik A. (2003) The Philippines is a developing country competing with its
neighbors for needed Investments. Although environmental regulations may create some
disincentive for investment, Emissions fees offer less costly ways of achieving air quality
improvements. Moreover, the Philippine people are already laboring under pollution-caused
health conditions that lower Productivity; by improving the health of its labor force, the
Philippines may gain a competitiveedge. Even though many countries in Asia are adopting more
stringent environmental policies, Manila may stand to gain more, if only because it has some of
the worst air pollution in Asia.

II. ADVOCACY

Policy studies will be conducted to study the potentials of urban agriculture as well as the
issues and concerns affecting urban agriculture. These studies will then serve as the bases for
subsequent policy advocacy efforts at the local levels that will likewise be undertaken during the
duration of the program.

Vision

Envisions to increase the quality of air by bringing back the natural green environment into
urban settings.

Mission

To establish a connection to natural environment and find ways of addressing disaster risks and
effects of pollutions.

III. PROGRAMS/PROJECT

 Street Planting/"Street Planters"


As part of Urban gardening project proposal, Street planters program will be conducted
on March 21, 2020 in accordance to world tree planting day. There will be a seminar and
orientation in the morning with regards to the flow of projects that volunteers joined to.
The main aim is to conduct gardening in the most known streets in Manila such Taft
Avenue, Buendia etc. There would be over 100 types of plant seeds to be planted within
those said areas. As an addition is to put up barriers that qould protect plants from harm
of vandalizing and destroying.
 Postharvest/Processing
o This will remember reads for preparing/bundling of plant and creature items
to drag out their timeframe of realistic usability and enhance the items.

IV. BENEFICIARIES

In a macro scale, urban agriculture can assist ease with increasing the issue of nourishment
shortage in focuses of populace. It can help lighten the issue and upgrade the excellence of
networks and homes. Most importantly, it can begin for the future an effective monstrous "city
cultivating" whose members have a change conduct and thinking design about creation of
nourishment, reusing of squanders, assurance of the earth, sustenance, cooperating, and respect
of work.

The following are the beneficiaries of Urban Gardening:

 Manila residents
 Tourist
 Students
 Future researchers

For individual advantages of the members, all the accompanying perhaps accumulated to
them:

 Sense of satisfaction for delivering the nourishment that they eat


 Transformed affectability at their condition as it will presently mean a wellspring of what
they eat to feed their body
 Desire to develop more and raise more nourishment as they appear to be more delicious
and increasingly nutritious beside the way that they are protected from dangerous
synthetics
 Changed respect to disposed of materials, decline, downpours, daylight, air, soil, and
degradable squanders to something that can be utilized gainfully for generation of the
nourishment that can be promptly brought to the eating table absent a lot of cost
 Sense of being great as their indistinct fretfulness will discover guaranteeing quiet in
tending gardens that produce nourishment they need. Urban farming will surely carry
advantages to the urban inhabitants, to urban focuses, to nature, and to the nation as a
rule.
V. BUDGET

As this study makes an action in accordance to the propose having a good quality of air here
in Manila, this will definetly take some effort and contribution of different people that will
benefit to this. By which it is supported also with budget because as day goes by to perform or to
take some action to this it should be supported financialy to have a better results which those
financial support need is coming from a fund raising that includes this study. Here are the some
of materials/equipment needed listed:

Gardening materials including all the production of plants, for setting up an seminar that talks
about the quality air awareness, it should need soundsystem, activities needed in cleaning and
etc.

The following are the tabular presentation of budget:

Item/s Quantity Price Total


Settings of Programs
Venue - 10,000 10,000
Decorations - 3,000 3,000
Equipments - 5,000 5,000
Chairs and Tables
Items to be distributed
Seeds Good for 100 persons 5,000 5,000
T shirts 100 persons (250x100) 25000
Hats 100 persons 100x100 10,000
Certificates 100 person 10x100 1000
Mini shovel 100 persons 50x100 5000
Gloves 100 pairs 6x100 600
Pots 100 pieces 50x100
Soil 50 kilos - -
Persons involved
Guest speaker 2 5,000 each 10,000
Host 2 2000 each 4,000
Total 78,600

Those listed materials/equipment is inclusively needed for as long as this study works.
Lastly, all the documents and the works that will be done is going to be documented for its proof
of having just-fair calculations.
VI. FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES

To increase visibility and support for raising funds, advocating for clean air quality and
environment through urban gardening is the possible course of action. The researchers will
be addressing the concerns about air and environment quality, and advocate for
improvements through urban gardening. This may raise a substantial amount of money for
the cause, and may have donors whose contributions allow us to continue our work to
advocate and educate about urban gardening’s advantages on our environment.

VII. REFERENCES

 Nitural, P. S. (n.d.). Urban Agriculture Program in the Philippines: . Retrieved from


http://en.fftc.org.tw/htmlarea_file/activities/20110719103448/paper-
947796964.pdf?fbclid=IwAR33kJa35YG_mhSCkzYR1r8GZVrxEII2zTSuFi75NMgorrjJ
tp85X5P5AgQ.
 Ambag, R. (2018), How bad is the Pollution in the Philippines retrieved from
https://www.flipscience.ph/health/how-bad-air-pollution-philippines/
 Krupnik, A., (2003), Air Pollution Control Policy in Metro Manila, retrieved from
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu

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