00:00The 2017 war on terror against the Mautes had displaced the lives and livelihoods of several thousand renowns in Lanao
00:07del Sur,
00:08the ISIS-inspired insurgency group recruiting mainly the young and the naive as jihad warriors.
00:14To counter the radicalization of this most vulnerable group,
00:18Peace Crops was born to promote agro-enterprise in the country's most impoverished province,
00:23retooling mindsets toward the building of farms, not arms, and opening for them,
00:28market opportunities for improved income.
00:32After two years, our influence has grown from a cadre of 15 out-of-school youth to 108 peace farmers,
00:40children, women, local farmers, capacitating them on the clustering approach using the bridging leadership framework.
00:47Instrumental to our growth are voluntaristas, friends, students, teachers, including Catholic seminaristas,
00:54to an intercultural bayanihan, local and youth leaders,
00:58and a strong military support that brought us to far-flung municipalities in conflict-torn Lanao del Sur.
01:05Where threats of violent extremism encounter attacks erode development in the very places that most need them.
01:13Having our partners co-own our vision of economically productive farming communities
01:17is our formula of ensuring project sustainability towards food and peace security.
01:24At Peace Crops, we believe in dropping seeds, not bops.
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