While many residents in the 'global village' are contemplating on "inconvenient" warming and melting ice, there is still a need however to think of "the small, the least and the lowest practices" by mountain people. In the mountainous coast of Lobo and San Juan, about 170km south of Manila, Philippines, mountain farming is characterized by century-old kaingin (slash-and-burns); forest fragments are cleared to give way for growing food crops thus eliminating the natural island of trees as an important carbon sink.
