Growing through collaboration. A cross-learning visit facilitated by KUAFA and ECOWEB's GreenFiber Project to strengthen community-managed abaca enterprises in Sibagat. The Kioya United Abaca Fiber Association (KUAFA) began as a small and developing group…
In the highlands of Iligan, a Higaunon woman bends over her small patch of soil, her hands dark with earth as she plants seeds into the earth. In Zamboanga del…
(by Rockrock Antequisa, PDA, ECOWEB) In the Philippines, traditional attire is a symbol of ethnic identity. Most indigenous group have attires with elaborate distinctive combination of colors. It is unusual…
Brot für die Welt’s program manager for the Philippines Jonna Lena Raphaela Seemann visited the abaca farmers in the hinterland of sitio Salvador of barangay Rogongon, some 40.4 kilometers far…
Fifty-nine engineering students enrolled in engineering planning and design courses will conduct the "feasibility and planning, detailed engineering design, program of works and budget" for ECOWEB’s development sites with the…
Abaca fibers hang inside the learning facility of Man-ai Integrated Agroforestry Cooperative which is being dried up and readied for classification and bundling. Inside a dimly lit space, the names…
“How did the abaca plantation and its social enterprise change us? It changed me and my companions dramatically. We used to be full of vices; deficient in knowledge on farming;…
After the Marawi siege in 2017, thousands of Meranaws experienced a massive displacement in and around Lanao del Sur. Some of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) sought refuge in the…
Lanao del Sur has declared its state of Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) in the month of July, 2021. As of July 25, 2021, 2 new cases of COVID-19 have…
Subsistence agriculture is a typical mode of agriculture among the indigenous Higaunon and Kolibugan tribes in Barangay Kalilangan, Iligan City. Farming families till a small farm usually half-hectare (5,000 square…
