(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…
BRoT program manager in PH visits abaca farmers in Iligan; learn farmers dev’t
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…
59 engineering students-interns from MSU-IIT CET conduct ocular surveys in Higaonon, Subanen ancestral domains
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…
Farmers’ cooperative in Man-ai advances toward gender-sensitive abaca enterprise and agro-forestry development
“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;…
Abaca plantation and its social enterprise recover our sense of self-respect, says Higaonon farmerÂ
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…
Agri project thru demo farm to bolster economic conditions of IDPs, food security
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…
Sew to Earn: An Opportunity at Home for an IDP Group in Butig
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…
Transforming subsistence agriculture by enhancing abaca farmer
SITUATION OVERVIEW At around 10 AM of March 31, suspected NPA forces, estimated by the local people to number at least a hundred, who earlier raided the house of…
Internal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City
The pandemic has brought people to hoard food causing long queues in grocery stores and caused some people to put themselves to risk to compete for food availability. Local businesses…
