• Rainforestation - arming aims to replace the more destructive forms of "Kaingin" practices, form a buffer zone around primary forests, protect their biodiversity, help maintain the water cycle, and provide farmers with stable and higher incomes. Rainforestation evolves from various efforts to sustain human food production and simultaneously preserve the biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems and their vital functions to human kind.
• Evaluation of Silvicultural Management, Ecological Chances and Market Study of Products of Existing Rainforestation Demo Farm. (Funded by: (Deutsche Gesellsschaaft Für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) - Leyte Island Program, Buffer Zone Forest Management and Reforestation by Small Holder Communities Project)
  • Monitoring Response of Trees to Silvicultural Management
  • Performance Evaluation and Monitoring of Existing Demo Farm: Trees, Soil Nutrients Dynamics, and Wildlife
  • Marketing Study of "Rainforestation" Farm Products
• Targeting Technology Intervention for Food Security in the Philippines: A GIS Application for Agricultural Research Prioritization - aims to collate, integrate, and analyze the different data sets that are to be made, both at the regional and national levels. (Funded by: DA-BAR)
  • GIS Application for Suitability Evaluation of Biophysical Environments for Rice, Rootcrops, Abaca, Coconut, Fruitcrops, and Poultry and Livestock.
  • GIS Application for Mapping of Agricultural Technology and Field Level Practices in Rice, Rootcrops, Abaca, Coconut, Fruitcrops, and Poultry and Livestock.
  • GIS Application for mapping and Farmer Knowledge System in Rice, Rootcrops, Abaca, Coconut, Fruitcrops, and Poultry and Livestock.
  • GIS Application for Agricultural Research Prioritization in Region VIII.

Research Activities

Community-Based Coastal Resources Management Program - The rapid deterioration of coastal marine resources spurred the implementation of the community-Based Coastal Resources Management (CB-CRM) program. Its major objective is to come up with a holistic coastal resources management plan to answer the needs and environmental-friendly development.

• Socio-Economic Survey
• Environment Education
• Community Organizing
• Capability Building
• Technical Support and Alternative Livelihood Establishment
• Networking
• Marine Sanctuary Establishment, Maintenance and Monitoring
• Assessment of the Population, Reproductive and Fishery Biology of Commercially Important Invertebrate Resources of Leyte and Samar.

Extension Activities

Sustaining Local Management of Coastal Resources in Leyte

Pre-implementation diagnosis of sustaining CRM in Baybay, Leyte

• Initial conceptualization meetings
• Monitoring and evaluation of marine sanctuaries and artificial reefs and coastal clean-up
• Law enforcement and regulation
• Livelihood project

Strengthening the Cuatro Islas marine alternative livelihood projects

• Evaluation of the Cuatro Islas alternative livelihood project

• Rainforestation Farming - the training will address the conservation, protection and restoration of the biodiversity of the Philippine rainforest.
• International Seminar-Workshop on Tropical Ecology - this yearly seminar workshop is organized by the Institute of Tropical Ecology, Leyte State University, Philippines, University of Hohemheim, Germany, University of Satya Wacana, Indonesia and University of Halle, Germany.
• Scuba Diving - this training facilities learning of the biota in marine ecosystem and their interrelationships with each other and their physical environment. It will help develop a deeper appreciation of the beauty and functionality of marine ecosystems which, in turn, strengthens their understanding of the need to protect and conserve marine habitats.
• Natural Resource Management and Conservation - the training will focus on the rehabilitation of degraded lands (including rainforestation), erosion control, integrated soil management and biodiversity assessment and conservation.
• Ecological Impact of Mining Activities - the seminar will focus on the impacts mining/minerals processing on the air, water and soil resources as well as on human health.
• Coastal Resource Management - the training will address the conservation, protection and restoration of coastal habitats.
• Soil Waste Management - the training will focus on the proper collection and household and agricultural waste.