Flashback to 70s/80s, early in my career I realized that to be a good agriculturist I should also be forester and a rural sociologist as well. I lived in mountainous Central Visayas region...
Farm, Forest, and Food
Good agriculture produces the good food, right? But don’t we need the forest too?. The stories here represent the evolution of in work upland agriculture landscapes and community based forest care systems in Asia … and how we could benefit if we treat them as one system. Valuable references by innovators and thought leaders are also included
In the early 90’s we studied the work of India, on the ecology and biology of agriculture. We also learned about large landscape approaches of China to land rehabilitation. In the US east...
I detested doing a college technical thesis or the idea of a PhD. I wasn’t really keen on hard scienceBut the science world (ICRAF) beckoned in CY 2000. There was need to reach out to (upland)...
I love the gentle rural communities of Cambodia and Laos who hug the mighty Mekong River. I was happy to help on technical land issues. But the “land economics “angle (land access) always haunt the...
On a recent touristic visit to Bali, I ended up being fascinated most by Bali’s traditional agroforest and rice irrigation system called Subak. The Subak is an example of the many captivating...
Key Features
Secretary of Agriculture, Niue
Meeting with Samoan traditional leader
Chapel in Niue with Filipino coral choir
Ideas that inspired us On farm adaption must be complemented by landscape level adaptation. Farmers lives are too intertwined with forests and rivers in the community. Grassroots oriented field...