“Thinking Globally, Acting Globally”! PH Agriculture Should Be, As I Put It On The Cover Of My 7th Book Published By ICRISAT – Let Us Ask How? Director General William Dar

“Thinking globally, acting globally.” Succeeding, William Dar needs at least the next 6 years as Secretary of Agriculture to lead us Filipinos from a disagreeable-business to agribusiness desired!

Honestly, we Filipinos need a wide-angled leadership of our agriculture to inspire our farmers and fishers to escape the prison of poverty and explore the outside universe of prosperity. Now then, we must continue with Mr Dar inspiring us to achieve “Masaganang Ani at Mataas na Kita” (“Bountiful Harvests & Bounteous Income” – my translation).

Why Mr Dar as the next PH Secretary of Agriculture? Let me give my forthright thoughts – we need someone with:

1.     international experience as science leader;

2.     100% empathy for poor farmers;

3.     wide-angled, ie, global view of Agriculture;

4.     proven hard work for country, preferably Ilocano;

5.     implements “Science with a human face.”

Allow me to elaborate:

1.   Global Experience As Science Leader

Above, from the cover of my 7^th book on the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) published by ICRISAT – note millionaire Bill Gates (blue shirt) and ICRISAT Director General (DG) William Dar (white). Mr Gates visited ICRISAT on 31 May 2013 after donating $ Millions via Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funding institutional partnerships in Africa and Asia. I wrote on page 45 of my book:

Bill Gates is not Ambassador of Microsoft Goodwill this time; he is Ambassador of Good Works – he has pledged his billions to the art and science of what he calls “creative capitalism.”

And? Up to today, I say Mr Dar is ambassador of “Creative Agriculture.”

2.   100% Empathy For Poor Farmers

Indeed, he is much acquainted with poverty. Mr Dar came from a poor Ilocano family unable to send him to high school – his uncle did.

3.   Wide-Angled View Of Agriculture

Leading and visiting projects of ICRISAT in Asian and African countries, Mr Dar developed an unusual panoramic view. In photography, a wide-angle lens will capture more than you usually see at a glance, background and foreground – a view for planning & acting.

The cover of my book, the title of which also came from me, also says “ICRISAT & PARTNERS: Thinking Globally, Acting Globally.” Mr Dar knows that – while you act locally, you must think globally again & again. He anticipated that by coming out with his “The New Thinking For Agriculture” (Philippines), bringing it in when he became Secretary of Agriculture 2+ years ago.

4.   Hardworking Ilocano for his country

Mr Dar is one diligent Ilocano – a not-so-public display of that is, retired from ICRISAT as DG, coming back to his country, he founded and became President of The InangLupa Movement – he is dedicated to the good of his Inanglupa (Motherland) Philippines!

5.   implements “Science With A Human Face”

“Science with a human face” was his successful mantra for ICRISAT. Today, as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Dar is implementing “Science with a human face” dedicated to all Filipinos. Honestly. Faithfully.@517