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The Golden Trees: How Farmers Turn Fungal Infections Into Fortune

IN the verdant hills of Southeast Asia, an extraordinary transformation is taking place. Farmers who...

From Decades of Waiting to Months
of Winning: The Agarwood Revolution

A SINGLE kilogram of premium agarwood sells for $50,000—more than most people earn in a...

From Seed to Scent: How Bohol Farmers Can Build Wealth with Agarwood

THE crop that smells like wealth—literally. The Tree That’s Changing Lives—One Scent at a Time...

Planting Prosperity: Agarwood Farming as a Game Changer for Boholanos

WHAT if I told you there’s a tree that turns its wood into something more...

The Auction Block of Democracy: How Bohol Sold Its Soul for Envelopes

WHEN your vote becomes merchandise, you become the merchandise. A grandmother in rural Bohol opens...

Bohol’s Whale Shark Tourism Crisis:
A Call for Human-Centered Legal Reform

THOUSANDS of Filipinos lost their livelihoods in a daynot because of typhoon Yolanda—but because of...

Expensive Living, Drugs, and Water Crisis:
Why Boholanos Must Elect the Right Leaders Now

THE water stops flowing at noon. Again. A mother in Tagbilaran stares at empty containers...

The Currency of Loyalty

LET me share my poem: From Manila’s sweltering squares to Hague’s cold cobblestones, they gather—scattered...

Pride and Fire: Ancient Warnings
Echo Through Modern Hollywood

“PRIDE goes before destruction,” warns the ancient Hebrew text of Proverbs, “and a haughty spirit...