“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,…
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…
Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (ECOWEB), Inc in partnership with Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a total of…
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…
Partner Organization: Bread for the World The project’s main objective is that men and women IPs from the ancestral domains in Bayug-Iligan, Dulangan and Bayog Zambo Sur increased resource efficient…
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…
