In the face of climate change, women seaweed farmers in the Philippines are cultivating a lucrative alternative crop. Seaweed farming is the world’s fastest-growing form of aquaculture and the Philippines is the fourth largest producer globally.
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Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college. - VnExpress International
"Cherish means to protect and care for what we have," Mardy Montano, president of the cooperative, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as she rested after a day's work on a floating house in the midst of Palawan's turquoise waters. "That's how valuable seaweed farming is for all of us." Seaweed farming is the world's fastest-growing form of aquaculture and the Philippines is the fourth largest producer globally.
The Philippines is world's 4th largest seaweed producer Women seaweed farmers use money to educate their children Government to create more seaweed farmer