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                    [ArticleID] => 265210
                    [Title] => Rehabilitating a river bank
                    [Summary] => Bioengineering is a mix of natural and civil works interventions that make use of natural elements to prevent flooding, erosion, and other disturbances in riverbanks, gullies, mountain trenches and similar sites. Bioengineering emphasizes the use of natural elements like plants and natural land and stone formations to protect communities and farms and prevent further ecological damage.

[DatePublished] => 2004-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1222494 [AuthorName] => Charmela Ates [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263616 [Title] => A quasibank turns into a coastal resource manager [Summary] => "It took time before our townmates listened to us, but they eventually did. Now, we have a cheaper source of credit that poor fisherfolk like us put up. Our cooperative helped us tide over our personal difficulties by funding our livelihood projects. It is now helping fishers and protecting our coastal environment."
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632070 [AuthorName] => Nora O. Gamolo, FRMP-IEC [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263036 [Title] => Bangus fish cage culture [Summary] => The fisherfolk’s cry for livelihood that will provide them with their basic needs is a priority concern in Reg. 10, where the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Fisheries Resource Management Project (FRMP) has started various livelihood projects. The first microenterprise project started was bangus production in marine net cages established in Sitio Guiwanon, Talisayan, Misamis Oriental.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632069 [AuthorName] => Nora O. Gamolo and Angelilah Talle-Cabig [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260478 [Title] => Rising above water through crab culture [Summary] => The following is not so much a story of a project earning an income as it is a story of collaboration among a cooperative, a non-government organization, local government units, and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1309010 [AuthorName] => Esperanza A. Santos And Leah Charito T. Tambolero [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251098 [Title] => A paradise threatened [Summary] => The province of Palawan, specifical ly Puerto Princesa City, is one of the last natural resource and forest bastions of the country. Results of the resource and social assessment (RSA) of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Fisheries Resource Management Project (BFAR-FRMP) showed that 41 percent of the 253,982 hectares of the ity’s total land area is classified as timberland while 35 percent is agricultural, attesting to the relatively unexploited condition of the city’s terrestrial resources. [DatePublished] => 2004-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462514 [AuthorName] => Lionel A. Abril And Reynalee Tutop [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249365 [Title] => ‘Crab mentality’ takes a positive turn [Summary] => Crab mentality. This phrase conjures images of unfriendly competition, backbiting, jostling and trampling of each other in a race towards a common goal.

For many fisherfolk associations (FAs) and cooperatives, this "crab mentality" has become an agent of change and development, a catalyst for cooperation, unity and teamwork, all towards a common goal – greater income for each member’s family.

Minimizing capture fishery, lessening pressure to the sea.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135814 [AuthorName] => Armi U. Budomo [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 248476 [Title] => Saving our seas to save our future [Summary] => The Philippines is located in one of the world’s richest biogeographic areas, and is one of the richest in diversity of marine life. With its 7,107 islands, 150 million hectares of marine waters and an extensive coastline of 17,640 kilometers which is five times larger than its land area, the country is a natural fishing ground.

This rich fishing ground is normally associated with high fish yield, but more and more fishermen catch less and less fish. Various factors have caused this depletion.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632068 [AuthorName] => Nora O. Gamolo [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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