In an article in The Inquirer about the possible need for food aid to victims of Typhoon Yolanda to extend until the next rice planting season, comes a call for funding to help rebuild agroforestry in the uplands.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN is seeking funds from the UN’s Strategic Response Plan to rehabilitate upland agroforestry areas. They are proposing that a salvage and clearing away operation be achieved through providing cash for work and tools and training needed to process fruit and timber trees, with the wood salvaged to provide fuel and charcoal.

The FAO believes the agroforests can be rehabilitated through the intercropping of quick-return food and cash crops with tree seedlings. The seedlings could be produced in community-based nurseries.

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