Charles R. Avila is the Executive Director of the Confederation of National Coconut Farmers’ Organizations of the Philippines. He is the author of the now classic book Ownership: Early Christian Teachings. A former mayor of the town of his birth (Tanauan Leyte), he has served as Consultant of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, as Secretary-General of the 18-nation Asian Cultural Forum on Development, a Research Fellow at the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Mexico, at the Institute for Food and Development Policy in San Francisco, a Staff Writer of South Magazine in London, a lecturer on agrarian reforms at the Land Reform Training Institute in Taiwan, and Deputy Secretary General of the Philippine Congress of Agrarian and Industrial Workers.
Philippines-based Avila, studied Theology and got his Masteral degree in Philosophy at the Divine Word Seminary, Quezon City and Tagaytay City. He continues to be involved in the coconut levy funds case, mining issues, the cause of the peasantry and related advocacies about which he writes periodically in his blog site, https://thegardenerstales.com. https://thegardenerstales.com
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