Binnadang is the official publication of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera.
Binnadang is a word used by the Bontoc Kankana-ey in the Cordillera, northern Philippines, for labor cooperation. This concerted action by community members is mainly applied in agriculture and community gatherings.
PANAGLAJEEP: Balik-aral sa Buhay at Pagkilos ng Sektor ng Pampublikong Transportasyon sa Baguio
NILALAMAN I. Kasaysayan at konteksto a. Hari ng kalsada b. Tsuper at opereytor c. Pagkakaisa at pagsulong II. Mga tagumpay ng sama-samang pagkilos ng mga tsuper, opereytor, at mananakay sa Baguio a. Pangunguna at pakikiisa sa pagbawi sa mga...
SALUN-AT KEN SAKIT A COVID-19
COVID-19 and Livelihood Loss
The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown have affected us all but, as in most things, not equally. A huge casualty is people’s livelihoods. Those already vulnerable, relying merely on what they make in a day, are just so much more badly hit than many of...
Women in Resource Management
For many outsides of the Cordillera, the Cordillera rice terraces are what one sees in Banaue (Poblacion). Popularized by tourism and media, the Banaue rice terraces have become the public image showcasing the ingenuity, engineering skills, and...
Peoples Project in Abang
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) and its partner people’s organizations (POs) are working towards the realization of prosperity, peace, and security in the province of Abra. Unfortunately, the Armed Forces of the...
Saving Traditional Seeds
Through sharing of seeds, farmers have preserved traditional varieties of rice and other essential food crops such as beans and fruits. This practice endures in some indigenous and local communities where members share, borrow and exchange seeds...
Water for Development
Water is a resource vital to all. But it can be more keenly felt in indigenous and rural communities where neither public nor private water systems operate. In many interior Cordillera villages, creeks, rivers, and streams irrigate fields and...
Yellow Corn Invasion
CDPC’s ways of engaging are varied and at varying levels. It participates vigorously in the public discourse, both local and national, especially on policies and issues that directly bear on indigenous peoples and other marginalized sectors in the...
People’s Integrated Farm
Tabuk City in Kalinga province is the rice granary of the Cordillera region. To produce bumper crops of rice, the farmers use mostly high-yielding varieties (HYV) boosted by commercial agrochemical inputs that are indispensable to their production....
Food Security
In a country where the great majority are rice eaters, it is easy to forget that there are those among us whose staple is other than rice. In various regions, corn or rootcrops are the predominant food in the daily diets of the local people. And in...
Self-Determined Sustainable Development
Self-determined sustainable development. By itself, development is a big, heavy word. Add two other polysyllabic words to define it, and it is a mouthful to say. Each adjective is also just as weighty and suggestive of various meanings. So what...