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New USDA-Funded Project to Build Skills, Resources of 25,000 Farmers to Grow High-Value Crops
DAVAO CITY, Philippines, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new $5.4 million project aims to increase the incomes and food security of 25,000 farmers in the Philippines by harnessing local value chains to increase opportunities and sustainability in growing high-value crops like cocoa, coconuts and rice.
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The "whole systems" part of the equation has to do with the holistic nature of the WSD team's approach. As the website explains, "We aim to design places so that lines between the 'human' and the 'natural' disappear . . . Our approach synthesizes ecology, landscape architecture, site development, construction, farming, education and other disciplines." WSD designs buildings that are fueled by renewable resources, and gardens - both traditional and nontraditional - that fuel the people who live and work in those buildings.
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