Kaingin Need To Stop

Shifting cultivation in the Philippines is widely referred to as 'kaingin', but as this paper reported, different communities attached different meanings to the term. The most common local definition was slash-and-burn with no return to forest, and farmers in all areas attributed deforestation to kaingin rather than to commercial logging. In the past, forest resources … Continue reading Kaingin Need To Stop

Soil is the Earth’s Skin

Soil is the earth’s fragile skin that anchors all life on Earth. Increased demand for agriculture commodities generates incentives to convert forests and grasslands to farm fields and pastures. The transition to agriculture from natural vegetation often cannot hold onto the soil and many of these plants, such as coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybean and … Continue reading Soil is the Earth’s Skin

Kids joined clean up

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu, Philippines—Over 400 volunteers beat the sunrise on Friday morning, February 22, to participate in the clean-up drive at the Butuanon River in Mandaue City as part of the simultaneous river clean-up in 10 rivers in Central Visayas. Among the 400 are six Opao Elementary School students and Supreme Student Government (SSG) officers … Continue reading Kids joined clean up