Abaca
Abacá ( ah-bə-KAH; Filipino: Abaka [ɐbɐˈka]), binomial name Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. The plant, also known as Manila hemp, has great economic importance, being harvested for its fiber, also called Manila hemp, extracted from the leaf-stems. Abacá is also the traditional source of lustrous fiber hand-loomed into various indigenous textiles in the Philippines like t'nalak, as well as colonial-era sheer luxury fabrics known as nipis. They are also the source of fibers for sinamay, a loosely woven stiff material used for …
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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 18 April 2024 English
Professor Ed Garcia of the this war of attrition is to cease, the Christian majority Department of Political Science, University of the must allow for the development of Lumad and …
Manuel observes: which transformed D~ao into an abaca (hemp) province.12 'Actual abridgemeTJ,t of customary … tracts of land in Davao for huge and profitable abaca Early in February 1992, news leaked out that the …
SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · 30 March 2024 Modern Greek
στιγμή μπορεί να εξελιχθεί Τσεκούρας, εκ της ευάνδρου Ηπείρου καταγόμενος και εκείνος, διάβασε προσφάτως σε κείμενο περί του προέδρου Κασσελάκη, Θα ζητήσουν να εξετάσουν υπολογιστές και servers, προκειμένου σε κανονική …
συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Γαλλίας, της και στον κόσμο. ReuteRs / ABACA PRESS / ViCtoR Joly Σαββατοκύριακο 30-31 Μαρτίου …
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung · 27 March 2024 German
Die Auslandsinformationen (Ai) der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung sind eine Zeitschrift für internationale Fragen, Außenpolitik und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Sie haben das Ziel, einen Teil der im Zusammenhang mit der Auslandsarbeit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung gesammelten Informationen …
Australien Bertil Wenger / Justin Burke 52 Foto: © NATO, Abaca Press, picture alliance. Niemand in Canberra wünscht …
DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier · 21 February 2024 English
Ukraine presents a unique challenge for many international humanitarian organisations. Operating in a context of heightened geo-political and donor interest, and in close proximity to military actors, amateur volunteer groups …
Institute for International Studies. Cover photo: Abaca Ritzau/Scanpix All DIIS Policy Briefs are printed …
RFF: Resources for the Future · 20 February 2024 English
The endogeneity of the allowance allocation is an important difference from C&T—a difference with important implications for the costs of achieving the nation’s overall emission-reduction targets and the distributional impacts. …
The emissions inventory model is the Air Benefit and Cost and Attainment Assessment System—Emission Inventory (ABaCAS-EI) … We multiply these results by the energy emission factors in the ABaCAS-EI emissions inventory to yield sectoral pollutant …
Brookings Institution · 20 February 2024 English
In November 2004, I was in my kitchen in a small town in southern Maine, making apple sauce, when NPR reported about the swelling numbers on the Maidan. I dropped …
Viktor Yushchenko, April 4 2005. Olivier Douliery/ABACA. Yulia Tymoshenko, January 15, 2005. REUTERS/Gleb …
EU: European Union · 19 February 2024 English
other textile fibres of the genus Agave; — coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres; — synthetic …
EU: European Union · 9 February 2024 English
other textile fibres of the genus Agave; — coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres; — synthetic …
EU: European Union · 24 January 2024 English
textile fibres of the genus Agave; – coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres; – synthetic …
EU: European Union · 18 January 2024 English
other textile fibres of the genus Agave; — coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres; — synthetic …
