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Book Chapter
BC0298-09
TitleLandcare in the Philippines
AuthorMaria Noelyn Dano, Evy Elago, Delia Catacutan and Augustin R. Mercado Jr.
EditorsDelia Catacutan, Constance Neely, Mary Johnson, Horrie Poussard and Rob Youl
Year2009
Book TitleLandcare: local action –global progress
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
City of PublicationNairobi, Kenya
Number of Pages of the book15
Pages64-78
Call NumberBC0298-09
Abstract:
Landcare in the Philippines grew out of efforts to promote soil conservation technologies among farmers in the upland municipality of Claveria, Misamis Oriental, in the southern Philippines (Cramb 2004). It commenced in 1996 when local farmers, the local government and researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) formed a special partnership to promote conservation farming and agroforestry technologies in the uplands. Its development can be traced back to when ICRAF took over the research site of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Claveria in 1993. IRRI in collaboration with the Philippines Department of Agriculture (DA) initiated a farmer-tofarmer training programme on upland rice farming systems from 1987-92. The training involved the promotion of shrub legumes as hedgerows in contour farming, better known as the Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), which the DA has been advocating since the early 1980s.
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GRP 4: Reducing risks to land health and targeting agroforestry interventions to enhance land productivity and food availability
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