From the Uplands of Mindanao: Healing a Fragmented Land and Its People Through an Integral Ecological Approach

• Main Author: Ignacio, J. Andres F.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: upland degradation; GM corn; smallholder corn farming; culture-based education; culturally-sensitive leadership formation; integral ecology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/jmgs/vol7/iss2/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/jmgs/article/1100/viewcontent/from_the_uplands_of_mindanao_healing_a_fragmented_land_and_its_people_through_an_integral_ecological_approach.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Upland degradation has been a growing concern in the Philippines in the wake of extensive logging and clearing in the 1970s–1980s. As forests vital to the water supplies of burgeoning communities were depleted, the chances of these areas regenerating were set back by the encroachment of intensive ag...