Posts made in 2022

Xavier Science Foundation in partnership with the Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) conducted a forum on conflict resolution in Ancestral Domain on December 15, 2022, at Hotel de Susana in Valencia City, Bukidnon. The forum was attended by the men and women leaders of the Pigsabuwahan hu Tribu ta Kalatungan Kaglambaga, an IP-led coalition from the 21 barangays in the Mt. Kalatungan landscape headed by their Chairman Datu Johnny “Bagusayana” Guina and the...

XSF was selected as one of the 20 finalists for the Local Adaptation Champions Awards under the Financial Governance Category. The Foundation’s work in the Mt. Kalatungan Range promotes and advocates the Payment for Ecosystems Services (PES), a voluntary payment mechanism that creates incentives among businesses, organizations, and individuals to finance indigenous communities in upland areas rich in biodiversity, to plant endemic forest trees and coffee was recognized as a pioneering...

“My friends, only those who can see the invisible, God in man and his providential actuations, can do the impossible”, a famous quote from the visionary himself, Fr. William F. Masterson of the Society of Jesus. Continuing Fr. Masterson’s legacy, Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF) refrained from its traditional celebration of feast and party to a two-day immersion of giving and feeding the hungry in barangay Zamboanguita, Malaybalay City in Bukidnon on September 9 to 10, 2022. The event...

Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF) implemented a training entitled “I WOMAN Coaching and Mentoring on Coffee Production and Processing” as part of the Social Enterprise Development component under the Enhancement of Community Capacity for Sustainable Ecological Protection and Economic Development – Phase 2 (EcoSEED 2) project on March10-11, 2022 at the Ciervo Coffee Farm and Camping Site, Talakag Bukidnon. The EcoSEED-2 project is being supported by the Forest Foundation Philippines. The...

On February 16, 2022, Xavier Science Foundation organized a Global Land Tool Network – Secure Access to Land and Resources Sharing of Best Practices and Lessons Learned forum titled, “Consolidating the Application of Innovative Land Tools for Promoting the Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers in the Philippines” held at the Margarette Hotel, Maramag, Bukidnon. Participants and representatives from partner IPOs and Barangay Local Government Units attended to share their best practices and...