1st Eastern Visayas CBFM POs Federation Summit Conducted

The First Eastern Visayas Regional Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) People’s Organization (P.O.) Federation Summit was held in ParacleteRenewal Center, Brgy. Salvacion, Tacloban City on July 22 & 23, 2010.  The summit was spearheaded by the Regional CBFM PO Federation itself through the assistance of the DENR Regional Office 8 & its PENROs, Provincial, Municipal & [...]

SAC’s Sustainable Agriculture Project in Calbayog City: Farm diversification rescued the farmers of decrease rice production due to drought.

The recent monitoring visit to Calbayog City was very interesting.  Farmers in the area experienced 8 months drought that destroyed the rice harvest plummeting a big decline in the harvest of rice from 70 to 20-30 sacks per hectare.  The advocacy and interventions of SAC for sustainable crop production and food security for the family [...]

SPIADFI in Southern Leyte: Sustainable Agricultural Practices to diversify agricultural production and combat food security problems.

Now on its 3rd and last year of project implementation, SPIADFI also reaped the efforts of painstakingly advocating sustainable agriculture as an important adjunct to combat food security and as one of the best strategies to climate change adaptation!  Beneficiaries in the area already implemented various enterprises to diversify farm production thereby increasing the income [...]

Monitoring the SPIADFI interventions in Southern Leyte.

Mr. Herbert “Bert” Galdo, 24 years old from Bontoc, Southern Leyte was endowed with skills on bamboo furniture making.  he started at an early age of 8 and has wide experience of furniture making during his employment with several furniture shops.  He married Josie Abad from Hinundayan and blessed with 2 children.  The family was a [...]