Bantayan

Gerlie Rebamonte shows a handful of dried seaweeds left from her first harvest after typhoon Haiyan wiped her seaweed farm to the sea (Photo: Genevive Estacaan/Oxfam)
At the northern tip of the island of Cebu lies Bantayan—a group of islets inhabited by over 135,000 people. Of this, around 70% engage in fishing and seaweed farming. Seaweed farming is a common livelihood in the area offering a viable means of earning additional income, and is easy to manage...
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