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Travel restrictions posed by the pandemic may have limited the physical mobility of development organizations but this should not stop them from reaching their partners in the field. The blended approach to learning is one option that can be used.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone’s life into a 180-degree turn. The way people shop and learn changed in an instant. Even the way research organizations like World Agroforestry (ICRAF) implement their activities has also been affected by this crisis.
In the Philippines, we are less than two months away from the first anniversary of the declaration of the nationwide community quarantine on 15 March 2020 and, until now, lockdown measures are in place lenient for a while just to become stricter again in some places owing to the rising number of cases. According to the Philippine Department of Health, there are more than half a million COVID-19 cases in the country and around 2000 people are being infected daily.
Travel restrictions posed by the pandemic may have limited the physical mobility of development organizations but this should not stop them from reaching their partners in the field. The blended approach to learning is one option that can be used.
Published December 27, 2020, 1:00 PM
The Indigenous people of Bukidnon have been growing coffee for a long time, but it wasn’t until 2017 that their efforts were recognized on a national scale.
That year, Inhandig Tribal Multipurpose Cooperative (ITMPC) from Malaybalay took home the prize for the Arabica category in the Kape Pilipino (KP) Green Coffee Quality Competition, a nationwide cupping competition organized by the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc. (PCBI). ITMPC was one of two winners from Bukidon, the other being Kape Maramag from Maramag, who topped the Robusta category. Both went on to represent the Philippines in the Global Specialty Coffee Expo in Seattle, Washington that same year.