Posts made in 2025

On September 13, 2025, Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF) celebrated its 57th Founding Anniversary with the theme “Legacy of Change” at the Xavier University Old Library. The celebration was both a tribute to the past and a commitment to the future, highlighting the foundation’s enduring mission of empowering communities, uplifting children and Indigenous peoples, and protecting the environment. A key highlight of the anniversary was the launching of the “Sowing New Seeds”, a local...

Coffee growing in the Philippines has declined over the last three decades, threatening the source of income of around 300,000 Filipinos. Urbanization, land use conversions, and land tenure issues have modified the landscape of local coffee regions, especially mountain areas like Bukidnon in northern Mindanao. (Chaves, In the Hands of Indigenous Peoples: The Future of Upland Coffee Regions, 2012). Many of the upland coffee areas are, in fact, also ancestral domains. For many of the upland...