Participating Rural Appraisal in the Lowland Ecosystem of Selected Barangays in Misamis Occodental Philippines

Abstract

This Document is the output of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in the lowland ecosystem of Misamis Occidental and forms part of the Pre-Implementation PhasE (PIP) of the Biodiversity Research Programme (BRP) for Mindanao: Focus on Mt. Malindang. Similar PRAs were also conducted in the coastal and upland ecosystems. 

BRP is a collaborative research programme on biodiversity being undertaken in the Mt. Malindang environs in Misamis Occidental with financial support from the Netherlands  government and with SEARCA acting as base institution. 

A major Objective of this work was to collect data from the chosen eleven barangays of the Lowland Ecosystem of Misamis Occidental through PRA to come up with research themes to be implemented in the BRP. The PRA resulted in the characterization of the biophysical environment and the analysis of the socio-economic and cultural conditions  in the eleven barangays namely: Landing and Lumipac in Baliangao: Dioyo and Sixto Velez in Sapang Dalaga: Unidos and Tipolo in Plaridel, Calaran, Dapacan Alto, Mamalad and Siloy in Calamba: and Sinampongan in Alora. Two landscape and lifescape research themes have been formulated from the research data "Conserving Biodiversity 'hotpots' in Mt. Amparo and its Environs through Appropriate Land Use" and Reversinf Land Degradation Along the Langaran River." Focus on Mt. Malindang.