Rewarding smallholders for their environmental services: Lessons learned from Midwestern Leyte

A study was conducted to determine smallholders’ perspectives on the various forest environmental services, the types of rewards expected to enhance the revenue of small-scale farmers, and views on who should be the providers of rewards and preferred rewarding or payment mechanisms. The sites of the study were Barangay Gabas and Barangay Kilim in Baybay, Leyte, Philippines, immediately below the 2236 ha Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) project where all the respondents are residing. Respondents’ perspectives on forest environmental services, rewards and rewarding mechanisms or approaches were assessed through individual interviews and focus group discussions. Provision of improved water quality was considered the most important forest ecosystem service while cash payments were the most frequently mentioned type of reward. One of the rewarding mechanisms that emerged was the drafting of a resolution to be forwarded to the municipal or local government unit for financial support

ANALISIS DAN PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PENGAJUAN KLAIM BERBASIS WEB PADA PT ASURANSI RAMAYANA CABANG PALEMBANG

Tujuan penulisan skripsi ini adalah untuk mempermudah proses sistem pengajuan klaim pada PT Asuransi Ramayana Cabang Palembang. Adapun permasalahan pada PT Asuransi Ramayana Cabang Palembang adalah pihak kantor menginginkan adanya media yang dapat mempermudah mereka dalam proses pengajuan klaim dari nasabah, yang selama ini dinilai masih konvensional. Media web ini nantinya diharapkan mampu untuk menyampaikan informasi yang lebih cepat dan akurat. Dalam permasalahan ini kami menggunakan metode FAST dan merancang sebuah aplikasi pengembangan untuk media belajar berbasis CRM. Aplikasi web ini diharapakan dapat diterapkan dan implementasikan guna membantu PT Asuransi Ramayana Cabang Palembang dalam mempermudah proses pengajuan klaim

Preferred native tree species for smallholder forestry in Leyte

This paper reports on the research experiences of students and faculty members at the College of Forestry of Leyte State University on smallholders' preferred tree species for smallholder forestry in Leyte, Philippines. Results reveal that farmers have high preference for 'premium' native trees, i.e. those with high quality by-products and multiplicity of uses, both economic and ecological. High ratings were also recorded for three common exotic tree species, namely Gmelina arborea, Swietenia macrophylla and Leucaena leucocephala. The smallholders' desire to raise native trees, however, is inhibited by factors such as tenure security and insufficient knowledge and skills on propagation, management and protection. Other inhibiting factors include limited access to technical and other support services, and inadequate knowledge and understanding of government policies related to cultivation, harvesting and marketing of these trees

The Effects of Objects-First and Objects-Late Methods on Achievements of OOP Learners

Our research explored the effects of objects-first and objects-late methods on achievements of object-oriented programming (OOP) learners during a graduate course. The course’s scope was virtually identical for two groups, but the structure of the contents differed in sequence. The objects-first method emphasized the design and discussion of the object-oriented concepts from the very beginning while the objects-late deferred these concepts to the late lectures. The objects-first learners used all visual functionalities of BlueJ IDE. However, the objects-late learners started with only the text-based interfaces of BlueJ and they benefited its visual support in the last lectures. At the end of the study, we found that there was a statistically significant difference between OOP learner groups

PERBANDINGAN AMPAS KELAPA DENGAN AMPAS TAHU UNTUK MEDIA PERTUMBUHAN MAGGOT

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui media pertumbuhan yang baik untuk maggot atau larva lalat tentara hitam, penelitian ini dilakukan di TPA Desa Sindangsari, Kecamatan Banjarsari, Kabupaten Ciamis. Dilakukan pada tanggal 10 sampai 27 mei 2018. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen, menggunakan desain penelitian RAL dalam kandang yang terdapat 4 tingkatan, dan terdapat 8 sampel di setiap tingkatannya penyimpanan sampel acak berdasarkan perlakuannya, subjek dari penelitian ini adalah larva lalat tentara hitam (Hermantia illucens) atau sering disebut maggot, maggot dapat dikatakan agen biokonversi karena dapat merubah limbah organik yang sudah tidak terpakai lagi menjadikan bahan makanan organik bagi ternak. sampel diukur dari hari pertama yang masih berbentuk telur lalat hitam berjumlah 0,01gr setiap sampelnya dan dipanen saat setelah memasuki fase larva dewasa dan diambil data utama berupa biomassa dari larva tersebut. Selain data utama tadi, diambil juga data penunjang yaitu factor klimatik meliputi suhu udara, kelembapan udara, dan intensitas cahaya. Data utama dihitung menggunakan uji t independen dalam IBM SPSS dengan tingkat kepercayaan (α) = 0,05. Dari kedua perlakuan, ampas tahu yang menghasilkan lebih banyak larva lalat tentara hitam dibandingkan media ampas tahu. Kata kunci : Biokonversi, Maggot, Ampas Tahu, Ampas Kelapa