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The Integrated Rural Development Foundation (IRDF) is implementing a 5-year project to build resilient livelihoods of coconut farmers in Magsaysay, Makilala and Kidapawan (Mindanao). The project links poor farmers to Franklin Baker's supply chain (a whole nut processing company) & promote an intercropping system that produces higher sustainable incomes for beneficiaries. This initiative targets 25 barangays, 4,130ha of coconut farms, 4,154 farmers and 848 farmworkers (623 male and 225 female) on year 1. Complementary to this, the IRDF wants to further develop the coconut industry through husk valorization to expand economic opportunities available to poor farmers and farmworkers, especially women and youth, so that they can diversify their incomes, set up viable community businesses from their own savings... IRDF was established in 1989 as a social development foundation and has since worked with poor farmers, fisherfolk, rural women, agricultural workers and youth in local..

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