Women’s group in southern Mindanao

Women are often the first to take on landcare and the women in the Malisbong Community Development Organisation are no different.

With assistance from landcare facilitators the group accessed seeds from the Department of Agriculture and planted vegetables and fruit trees around their homes as a more diverse and nutritious food source for their families, and they hope to eventually increase their incomes.

For the group’s treasurer Janima C. Bayang, hunger is at the root of the problems in Malisbong. She is passionate about the benefits of landcare and hopes that their landcare group can one day inspire neighbouring communities, both Muslim and Christian.

“When there is food, and people are earning, there is peace. Landcare can sustain peace because productivity brings peace.”

Member of the Malisbong Community Development Organisation Muslim landcare group.