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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CEC: Center for Environmental Concerns · 9 May 2024 English
The residents set up the barricade on July 1, 2019 to enforce the stoppage of the company’s mining activities after the expiration of its permit. [...] The residents set up …
that the victims took a break from their work, abaca stripping, when the soldiers opened fire at them … natural healers, human rights violations their work, abaca stripping, when the soldiers opened fire at them …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024 English
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that were found to exist in farms located in the abaca plantations owned by the Japanese company Furukawa …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024 English
19 p.
that were found to exist in farms located in the abaca plantations owned by the Japanese company Furukawa …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024
19 p.
that were found to exist in farms located in the abaca plantations owned by the Japanese company Furukawa …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024 Spanish
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esclavitud que se descubrieron en las plantaciones de abacá propiedad de la empresa japonesa Furukawa Plantaciones …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024 English
19 p.
that were found to exist in farms located in the abaca plantations owned by the Japanese company Furukawa …
UN: The United Nations · 2 May 2024 Japanese
19 p.
that were found to exist in farms located in the abaca plantations owned by the Japanese company Furukawa …
CEC: Center for Environmental Concerns · 25 April 2024 English
The residents set up the barricade on July 1, 2019 to enforce the stoppage of the company’s mining activities after the expiration of its permit. [...] The residents set up …
that the victims took a break from their work, abaca stripping, when the soldiers opened fire at them … natural healers, human rights violations their work, abaca stripping, when the soldiers opened fire at them …
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 …
