CDO green start-up secures US funding support for food waste recycling project

By Manuel T. Cayon @awimailbox Mindanao Bureau Chief

The Cagayan de Oro’s Kids Who Farm has established a Food Loop, a circular food system concept, and its technology wanted to help households convert edible material waste into organic components for growing food, the US embassy said.

This project was one of the 20 start-up initiatives that offer sus- tainable solutions to environmental issues in Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, and Manila, and which the US government recently supported to get them developed to be implemented.

The US Embassy’s American Spaces Philippines and The Spark Project recently concluded the Green Impact Accelerator (GIA)