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| Title | Landcare in the Philippines | | Author | Maria Noelyn Dano, Evy Elago, Delia Catacutan and Augustin R. Mercado Jr. | | Editors | Delia Catacutan, Constance Neely, Mary Johnson, Horrie Poussard and Rob Youl | | Year | 2009 | | Book Title | Landcare: local action –global progress | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) | | City of Publication | Nairobi, Kenya | | Number of Pages of the book | 15 | | Pages | 64-78 | | Call Number | BC0298-09 |
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| 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
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GRP 2: Maximizing on-farm productivity of trees and agroforestry systems
GRP 4: Reducing risks to land health and targeting agroforestry interventions to enhance land productivity and food availability
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