Impact of COVID-19 to the Manobo indigenous peoples in Pangantucan, Bukidnon, Philippines

At the start of the year 2020, a rapidly spreading virus took the world by storm. The Corona Virus or COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. The global threat of the pandemic has instituted travel restrictions, limited physical contact and prohibition of mass gatherings. This has also disrupted the food system resulting to inadequate food supply to consumers and surplus products by the producers. Everyone in the world has been greatly affected by the pandemic but more so with the way of life of the IPs.

This briefer aims to show how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the Manobos of Pangantucan in Bukidnon province. The main respondents of this study are the members of the Nagkahiusang Manobong Manununod sa Yutang Kabilin (NAMAMAYUK, Inc.), an IP organization (IPO) with over 200 member households.

Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia, actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development.