sustainable agriculture

Marivic Dubria inspects coffee cherries on her family’s 2-hectare farm in Bansalan town, Davao del Sur. Dubria is among the farmer trainees of Coffee for Peace, a social enterprise that is a member of the Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Coalition, which is a partner of Oxfam Pilipinas under The Gender Transforma-tive and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) program. Photo by Roy Lagarde / Oxfam Pilipinas

Davao coffee shop helps lift farmers out of poverty

October 24, 2022

Blog post by Kristine Sabillo More from Kristine Sabillo DAVAO CITY — Marivic and Joe Randy Dubria live in a farming village in Bansalan, Davao del Sur, at the foothills of the Mt. Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippines. The couple worked hard but they struggled to make ends meet. Vegetable farming brought little income […]

(Clockwise from upper left) (1) A solar bubble dryer set up at the International Rice Research Institute during a storm; (2) the grains protected inside the dryer even during rainfall; (3) Camarines Sur residents receive a solar rice dryer; (4) a farmer sets up a solar dryer. (Photos:Rice Watch Action Network, Inc./RWAN)

Solar rice dryers, vegetable nurseries allow farmers quick recovery from typhoon

June 22, 2021

Like the rest of Bicol region, Camarines Sur suffered extensive damage when Typhoon Rolly (international name: Goni) barreled across the Philippines November last year. The region was still reeling from the effects of Typhoon Quinta (Molave) a week before and after Typhoon Rolly was done, almost P340 million worth of high-value crops were damaged in […]