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Soil Erosion in Cebu, Philippines

Submitted by peter on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 11:19
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Soil Erosion in Cebu, Philippines

Cebu, Philippines has been inhabited for thousands of years. Many areas - even remote areas - have had hundreds and hundreds of years of destriuctive agrilculture, plowing soils that are then washed to the sea. These rocks were hidden under soil a hundred years ago. Grazing and plowing for planting decimated them, reducing productive land in this area by a factor of ten over the past hundred years. Erosion is not a joke.

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Plowing With Ox in Cebu, Philippines

Submitted by peter on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 11:09
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Plowing With Ox in Cebu, Philippines

This is me, Peter Christopher, plowing with an ox (not the standard caribou water buffalo) in Cebu, Philippines in 2007.

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Band in Bohol

Submitted by peter on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 17:43
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Band in Bohol

One day when we were on the bus in Bohol we passed this band.

This is made of casaba or balanghoy (cassava)

Submitted by milynlubi on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 16:29
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This is made of casaba or balanghoy (cassava)

This is made of casaba or balanghoy(cassava) I made this in liptong , valencia negros oriental philippines.

This is the banana leaf use for making bodbod

Submitted by milynlubi on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 16:24
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This is the banana leaf use for making bodbod

This is banana leaf use for making boodbod. My mother like bodbod and I made of casaba, or balanghoy etc.....

this is my mother and sister

Submitted by milynlubi on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 16:15
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this is my mother and sister

this is my mother and sister live there in the mountain , Estakahan ,Apoloy siaton negros oriental.

this is watermelon we planted in the philippines

Submitted by milynlubi on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 16:10
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this is watermelon we planted in the philippines

this is watermelon we planted in the philippines in negros oriental.

this is my father

Submitted by milynlubi on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 16:07
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this is my father
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water buffalo ("caribou")

Submitted by peter on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 15:41
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water buffalo ("caribou")

The locals call them caribou, but in English the proper name is water buffalo.

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