Southeast Asian group pushes for replication of 9 PH agroforestry coops
Published Jun 9, 2019 05:52 pm
By Ellalyn De Vera-Ruiz
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is pushing for the replication of nine successful agroforestry cooperatives, including the notable reforestation at Imbayao, Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon.
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (MANILA BULLETIN)
The profit sharing models of nine agroforestry cooperatives, including one found at the 47,270 hectares Mt. Kitanglad Natural Park (MKNP) in Malaybalay City, is being documented by SEARCA.
It aims to replicate the success models of these job-generating, export-earning forest farms all over Southeast Asia, the think tank said.
The nine agroforestry cooperatives hold a Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) contract with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
CBFM is government’s instrument and strategy for sustainable forest management amid heavy denudation that decimated forest cover down to less than 24 percent from the original area in the 1900s.
For one, Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon, a declared protected area, suffered from a forest fire in 1983.
Fortunately, the Imbayao CBFM-People’s Organization in Mt. Imbayao, the most extensive lowland area in Mt. Kitanglad, was instrumental in its agro-forestry development.
SEARCA is also looking into the benefit sharing models of Tao Kalikasan Foundation of the Philippines in Labo, Camarines Norte; LBN Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC) in Vintar, Ilocos Norte; and Caunayan MPC in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, all in Luzon.
In Visayas, SEARCA has identified the Nalundan United Farmers Association, Inc., in Bindoy, Negros Oriental and Katilingban sang Pumuluyo nga naga-Atipan sang Watershed sa Maasin in Maasin, Iloilo.
The rest in Mindanao are San Isidro Upland Farmers MPC (SIUFMUCO) in Santiago, Agusan del Norte; Limatong Dalumangkom Bual Farmers Multipurpose Association in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato; Malakiba People's Improvement MPC in Davao City.
SEARCA’s benefit-sharing study is funded by the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry.
It will come up with policy recommendations for DENR as it reviews CBFM’s aim on socioeconomic benefits to the community, such as in jobs generation, project profits, skills training, and strengthening of social networks.
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (MANILA BULLETIN)
The profit sharing models of nine agroforestry cooperatives, including one found at the 47,270 hectares Mt. Kitanglad Natural Park (MKNP) in Malaybalay City, is being documented by SEARCA.
It aims to replicate the success models of these job-generating, export-earning forest farms all over Southeast Asia, the think tank said.
The nine agroforestry cooperatives hold a Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) contract with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
CBFM is government’s instrument and strategy for sustainable forest management amid heavy denudation that decimated forest cover down to less than 24 percent from the original area in the 1900s.
For one, Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon, a declared protected area, suffered from a forest fire in 1983.
Fortunately, the Imbayao CBFM-People’s Organization in Mt. Imbayao, the most extensive lowland area in Mt. Kitanglad, was instrumental in its agro-forestry development.
SEARCA is also looking into the benefit sharing models of Tao Kalikasan Foundation of the Philippines in Labo, Camarines Norte; LBN Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC) in Vintar, Ilocos Norte; and Caunayan MPC in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, all in Luzon.
In Visayas, SEARCA has identified the Nalundan United Farmers Association, Inc., in Bindoy, Negros Oriental and Katilingban sang Pumuluyo nga naga-Atipan sang Watershed sa Maasin in Maasin, Iloilo.
The rest in Mindanao are San Isidro Upland Farmers MPC (SIUFMUCO) in Santiago, Agusan del Norte; Limatong Dalumangkom Bual Farmers Multipurpose Association in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato; Malakiba People's Improvement MPC in Davao City.
SEARCA’s benefit-sharing study is funded by the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry.
It will come up with policy recommendations for DENR as it reviews CBFM’s aim on socioeconomic benefits to the community, such as in jobs generation, project profits, skills training, and strengthening of social networks.