LONDON, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mark Sultan Gersava grew up in poverty, one of 12 children of a slash-and-burn subsistence farmer in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat. Today he ...
MEMBERS of Kamasi during the BTFIH Agusan del Norte launch on April 24. In Simbalan, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte, over 100 farmers—62 of whom are women, mostly mothers—are excited about the income ...
Carbon fiber now appears poised to enter the mainstream of automotive materials, but a less high-tech material could be waiting in the wings as well. Bamboo could be the next carbon fiber, according ...
MISAMIS ORIENTAL (PIA) – The Philippines set a Guinness World Record on October 18, 2024, for the most people planting bamboo. A total of 2,305 participants from 19 locations—18 in Mindanao and one in ...
PROJECT BEAM (Bamboo for Ecological Architecture and Materials), the country’s first commercial-scale bamboo structure, will ...
BUTUAN CITY (PIA) – More than 80 local farmers from the Kapunungan sa mga Maguuma sa Simbalan Inc. (KAMASI) will directly benefit from Mindanao’s first Bamboo Textile Fiber Innovation Hub (BTFIH) ...
Nestlé today launched a new initiative to plant two and a half million native bamboo clumps and a million trees over the next three years in the Philippines. This reforestation effort supports ...
Mark Sultan Gersava grew up in poverty, one of 12 children of a slash-and-burn subsistence farmer in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat. Today he is the "chief executive farmer" of a company ...
Leading the launch is Kais Marzouki, Nestlé PH Chairman and CEO (upper right), joined by Alastair Jones, One Tree Planted Major Projects Manager (upper left), Camille Rebelo, EcoPlanet Bamboo ...