The Department of Agriculture and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples will work on a P6.6-billion project that seeks to improve the livelihood of farmers and fishers in Mindanao. | jordeenelagare /PDI
Such initiatives are to be implemented with established indigenous knowledge, systems and practices of the indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples and in a participative manner.
The DA will lead the preparatory activities, such as coordination or consultative meetings with stakeholders and site visits in close coordination with the NCIP. The NCIP is responsible for processing and issuing the certification precondition to all projects situated in the ancestral domain. The World Bank had approved a $100-million loan to the government for the MIADP, which it said would benefit around 120,000 farmers and fisherfolk in selected ancestral domains in Mindanao.
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