Book Chapter 2009
Landcare in the Philippines
Abstrak
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.
Detail publikasi
Berkas
Sitasi
Dano MN, Elago E, Catacutan D and Mercado Jr A. 2009. Landcare in the Philippines. In: Catacutan D, Neely C, Johnson M, Poussard H and Youl R,eds. Landcare: local action –global progress. Nairobi, Kenya. : World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). P. 64-78.