With the unprecedented hike in oil prices and uncontrolled inflation of commodities including food, there is an ever-greater clamor to change to a more sustainable lifestyle. Increases in prices are often related to the demand-and-supply relationship in the economy. When the supply cannot keep up with the demand, the prices start to increase. Exhaustible and unrenewable resources are subject to the price hikes. Therefore, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 pushes for a sustainable consumption and production.

One of the strategies for sustainable consumption is the practice of front yard gardening. Brgy. Panoypoy from Calbayog City is leading this initiative with their "BAGGING" Project which has been running for 25 years. Residents are given soil contained in rice sacks where they can plant their choice of vegetables from petsay, tarong, repolyo, sibuyas and/or kamatis.

According to Mr. Pedro A. Abajo, President of the Brgy. Panoypoy's Agrarian Reform Beneficiary Organization under the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the residents are free to harvest the crops for selling or consumption. Brgy. Panoypoy is a farflung barangay in Calbayog City which presents a challenge to most its residents especially with the increase in oil prices which affects fare prices.

Therefore, the BAGGING Project has helped its residents to have more access to nutritious food items that would have otherwise cost them much more if they had to travel to the nearest market. #PNFP-IFD