PUVeP News

Senior Indian Government Official Visits PUVeP

Dr. Vani Mohan, Additional Commissioner for Advertisement, Parks, Estate, Aasara & IT of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation visited Cagayan de Oro from July 22-25, 2008 within the framework of the "Cities Farming for the Future Program" of the RUAF Foundation.

Part of the included a visit of the Balulang Elementary School where Dr. Mohan was welcomed by hundreds of pupils. Dr. Mohan was able to see on how the “Essential Health Care Package (ECHP)” is implemented in ...

Read more Comments(0) 30.07.

Barangay Consultation on the Integration of Organic Waste with Urban Agriculture in Lapasan

Barangay Lapasan was host for the first barangay-wide consultation and workshop on the integration of organic waste management with urban agriculture. The event was held from on Saturday, June 28 2008, in the covered court of Barangay Lapasan National High School. Participants included Barangay Council officials and staff, sitio leaders, as well as representatives from the broader community: local teachers, vegetable marketing associations, sikad associations, NGOs, youth and women’s organiz...

Read more 28.06.

Prof. Dr. Katherine Gibson Visits Allotment Gardens

Dr. Katherine Gibson, Professor of Human Geography at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, together with her graduate student Ms. Ann Hill, visited the Sto Niño Allotment Garden in Lapasan as well as the PUVeP Office in Manresa on June 17, 2008.

They were accompanied by the representatives of the NGO Unlad Kabayan Migrant Servic...

Read more 20.06.

Urban Design for the Use of Organic Waste in Urban Agriculture

Can the way we design urban space facilitate the use of sustainable waste management practices for local food production? That is the question being explored by Jeannette Tramhel, a guest researcher at PUVeP (PeriUrban Vegetable Project at the College of Agriculture, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City.) In conventional planning, food production and waste management are typically designed as separate urban systems. This approach results in the loss of potential nutrients and ignores th...

Read more 09.05.

Viva, Santa Gertrudes!

The St. Gertrude's Day 2008 was celebrated on March 17, 2008 at the Santo Niño Allotment Garden in Lapasan. This annual activity, which is conducted in honor of St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint for gardeners, aims to strengthen the spiritual formation of all stakeholders of the allotment garden program, to enhance community building to foster the bondage between the allotment garden associations, the local government units and Xavier University.

This year’s celebration...

Read more Comments(0) 17.03.

IPSWaT Scholarship for Horacio S. Factura III

Horacio S. Factura III was awarded with an IPSWaT scholarship to conduct his Ph.D. thesis with the title “The Effect of Urine as a Source of Boron and Zinc on Physiological Parameters of Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. rugosa) and Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Grown with Biochar as Soil Amendment in Different Tropical Agro-Ecosystems in Northern Mindanao, Philippines “ under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Otterpohl of the Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection, Hamburg University of Technology (TUH...

Read more Comments(0) 07.03.

4th Cagayan de Oro Allotment Garden Day Celebration

On December 01, 2007, the Periurban Vegetable Project in cooperation with the city government of Cagayan de Oro and its community partners organized the "4th Cagayan de Oro Allotment Garden Day" at the AVR 1, Old Library Bldg., Xavier University Campus, as part of the Xavier Festival Days 2007. More than 100 persons attended the event, including gardeners of the different allotment gardens of the city, students from Lapasan National Highschool with their teacher Jimboy Eugenio (at the same ti...

Read more Comments(0) 01.12.

Launching of the RUAF Christa Holtz Allotment Garden

On November 30, 2007, the "RUAF Christa Holtz Allotment Garden" was officially launched at the Material Recovery Facility Area, Sitio Tibasak in barangay Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro City.

This allotment garden is the 8th allotment garden of Cagayan de Oro City and the 2nd in barangay Macasandig. Financial assistance for establishing the garden was provided by the Cities Farming for the Future Program of the RUAF Foundation as well as Mrs...

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RUAF-CFF Regional Advisory Committee Meeting

The Cities Farming for the Future Program of the RUAF Foundation conducted its Regional Advisory Committee Meeting for South and Southeast Asia in SEARSOLIN on November 29, 2007.

It was participated by Dr. Robert Simmons, (Coordinator of RUAF-CFF Program South and Southeast Asia based at the International Water Management Inst...

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Article Published in Urban Agriculture Magazine

The article "Asset-Based Community Development in Urban Agriculture: Experiences from the Southern Philippines", which was written by former SEARSOLIN Director Dr. Anselmo B. Mercado and PUVeP Director Dr. Robert J. Holmer was published in the Urban Agriculture Magazine No. 18 "Building Communities through Urban Agriculture". The article can be accessed online for downloading at the RUAF Website.

11.09.

General Assembly Allotment Gardeners

The Allotment Gardeners of Cagayan de Oro held their general assembly last August 18, 2007 at the occasion of the annual Manresa Days celebration. This year's venue was the Santol tree area just opposite of the PUVeP office in Manresa Farm. Aside of representatives from almost all allotment gardens of the city, the assembly was joined by Mrs. Estrella Borja and Eng. Alexis Maristaza, Aggie Outreach Director and Assistant Dean, respectively, DevCom students, Aggie Alumna Ms. Amy Ravidas a...

Read more 30.08.

Launching of Techno Demo Garden in Manresa

At the occasion of the Manresa Days 2007, PUVeP launched the so-called "Techno Demo Garden" at the St. Ignatius Allotment Garden in Manresa Farm on August 18, 2007.

The ribbon cutting was led by Aggie Dean Roel Ravenera, Estrella Borja, Associate Dean for Social Outreach and Robert Holmer, PUVeP Director, followed by the unveiling of the “St. Ignatius Prayer for Generosity” engraved in a marble plate placed along the staircase which leads to the Jesuit cemetery within the SEARSOLI...

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Belgian Friends Donate 10,000 Euro for Allotment Garden Project

Ms. Analiza U. Miso, presently on study leave in Germany, represented PUVeP at the occasion of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Sint-Amandsberg Allotment Garden, Gent, Belgium, on invitation of its president, Mr. Willy Goethals.

With great joy it was learnt that the provincial government of Gent donated 7500 Euro to establish a 9th allotment garden in Cagayan de Oro. The allotment community of Sint-Amandsberg is rai...

Read more 04.08.

Tigum Kagayan-on Inc. Inspects Treadle Pump Project

On July 20, 2007, Mr. Ed Chavez, President of Tigum Kagayanon Inc., and his son Edgar Jr., visited the different project sites where treadle pumps have been established through a generous donation of this Community Service NGO (see also earlier news article).

Pictures and short videos were taken in the allotment gardens of Macasandig, Lapasan and Kauswagan to document the pres...

Read more 25.07.

Ms. Kerstin Lepper of DED Afghanistan visits Allotment Gardens

Ms. Kerstin Lepper, a German national who is working in Afganistan as a peace service consultant for the German Development Service (DED) was in Cagayan de Oro to attend a Civil Peace Service Conference and used the opportunity to visit some of the community outreach projects of PUVeP on July 9, 2007.

The first area to be visited was the allotment garden of Macasandig which was established with financial ass...

Read more 10.07.

Allotment Gardens of CDO featured in BusinessWorld

The Allotment Garden Program of Cagayan de Oro City was featured in the June 7, 2007 issue of the Philippine newspaper BusinessWorld entitled “Community gardens promote healthy lifestyle in urban setting”. The article summarizes the activities of PUVeP in cooperation with communities, local government units and universities in the Philippines and Europe.

09.06.