Regenerative agriculture is shifting paradigms for coffee farmers in the Philippines
For Arnold Cagas Abear, coffee is life.The 42-year-old Filipino farmer comes from generations of smallholders who have tended their fields through hard, manual labor. With his calloused hands, Abear has earned a living for his family over the years. “In Filipino culture, family is everything,” he says from his farm in Bukidnon, a province in northern Mindanao, Philippines. With three young sons and a daughter, his ...