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…
“We used to be at the mercy of traders, now we buy our abaca fiber and our production guild (PG) is slowly earning profit,” says 33 years old Rudy Bendanillo,…
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…
Marites Magpali-Dagsaan looked back when she and her husband still earned P500 every two weeks from selling banana from their borrowed farm. That was tough for her and their three…
Recent developments in the fight against COVID-19 will send abaca farmers into having a second look at their farms. The Philippine Fiber Authority (PhilFIDA) just announced that the demand for…
“The people have nowhere to go, except their farms,” Timuay Manda quipped. Timuay Lucenio Manda is the chief tribal chieftain of the Subanen ancestral domain in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur…
Indeed, women can. She excitedly smoothed out her worker’s vest and straightened her hard hat. “I was surprised by this uniform. It is the first time we wear something like…
Formation of Production Guilds and Social Enterprises for the Economic Development of Indigenous Communities—FPG-SEEDIC Partner Organization: Bread for the World The project’s main objective is that men and women…
