COMMUNITY - Dole Sustainability

Historical
Background:
The
LibuganonExperience
• The Libuganon Watershed Reforestation Project, a 4-year project jointly funded by
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Dole-Stanfilco
in 1990’s aimed at assisting 4 resource-poor rural communities rehabilitate 500 hectares of
communities’ unproductive and denuded upland -forestal areas.
Benefiting closed to 300 farming households, the Project has three major components:
(a) AgroForestry,
(b) Reforestation, and
(c) Community Infrastructure Improvements.
• Organized in March 3, 1997 and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) on June 2, 1997 as a non-stock, non-profit social development organization.