Yearly Archives: 2018

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A TASTE OF SCIENCE APPLICATION IN COCONUT PRODUCTION AND HYBRIDIZATION

The Philippines has 3.56 million hectares (ha) of coconut lands where traditional production practices handed down from generation to generation for almost a century remain dominant. These practices include a typical coconut farmer raising unselected seednuts above the ground for eight to ten months. Then when the seedlings reach two feet in height, they are uprooted [...]

By |2019-12-08T11:43:35+08:00November 2nd, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

It is time to recognize the limits of certification in agriculture (commentary)

Commentary by Andre de Freitas on 16 November 2017 In early 2017, the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) decided that it was going to stop working with certification in agriculture. It was actually a fairly easy and straightforward decision: After working with this tool for over 20 years, we could look back and conclude that certification was not [...]

By |2019-12-08T11:43:35+08:00January 8th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments