Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Researcher

Marc M. Delgado

Researcher

Address

Department of Geography
Faculty of Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Building F
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussel
Belgium

Phone: +32 2 629 33 82

Fax: +32-2-629 33 78

mdelgado@vub.ac.be

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Address in the Philippines

Institute of Biological Sciences
University of the Philippines Los Baños
College, Laguna 4031
Philippines
Phone: +63 915 6226161

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Current and past research

Marc is currently a PhD student under the VLIR-ICP sandwich program. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology (major in Ecology) from the University of the Philippines Los Baños and his Master’s degree in Human Ecology from the VUB (VLIR scholarship). In the Philippines, he has worked as a Research Assistant on various projects related to the use of simulation models and geographic information systems in agriculture and forestry studies. His research interests include the use of information technologies in enhancing local participation for community-based natural resource management. For his PhD research, he is developing a land resource information system for an agricultural community in the Philippines to assist farmers in the selection of appropriate agroforestry species in order to help them meet their livelihood objectives. During his free time, Marc likes to cook for friends, listen to good music, and ride his bike. He wishes that he can snorkel and play the guitar more often. lti-source/multi-resolution modeling in remote sensing and GIS

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Master’s thesis

Spatial analysis of accessibility to services and resources: A GIS-based approach to assess sustainable rural livelihoods in the upland community of Claveria, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
Promoter: Prof. Dr. Frank Canters
Awarded the 2006 Development Cooperation Prize given by the Belgian Minister for Development Cooperation.

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Journal articles

Magcale-Macandog D.B., Visco R.G., and Delgado M.E.M. 2006. Agroforestry adoption, innovations and smallholder farmers’ motivations in tropical uplands of Southern Philippines. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 28(1): 131-148.

Magcale-Macandog D.B., Delgado M.E.M., Ty E., and Villarin J.R.T. 2006. Development of a GIS-based model to improve estimation of above ground biomass of secondary forests in the Philippines. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 18(1): 8-21.

Magcale-Macandog D.B., Delgado M.E.M., and Alipon M.A. 2005. Wood densities of tropical tree species in the Philippines: State-of-knowledge and database development for biomass estimation. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 17(3): 474-478.

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Book articles

Magcale-Macandog D.B., Ani P.A.B., and Delgado M.E.M. 2005. Developing a multi-agent system model of agroforestry adoption in smallholder farms in the Philippine Uplands: A companion modeling approach. In Companion Modelling and Multi-Agent Systems for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Asia. Bousquet, F., G. Trebuil and B. Hardy (eds.). International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Press, Philippines

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Papers published in proceedings

Delgado M.E.M., Magcale-Macandog D.B., and Cuevas V.C. 2005. Estimating carbon fluxes in changing land use from sugarcane to corn and mahogany systems in the Philippines: A biomodelling approach. In Conference book for the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community. 9-13 October 2005, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Magcale-Macandog D.B., Ani P.A.B., Campo P., and Delgado M.E.M. 2005. Multi-agent simulations of the human impacts and landscape dynamics of agroforestry adoption in the uplands of southern Philippines. In SIMMOD 2005, Simulation and modelling: integrating sciences and technology for effective resource management, edited by: V. Kachitivichyanukul, U. Purintrapidan and P. Utayopas. Bangkok, Thailand, 17-19 January 2005, p. 319-326.

Visco R.G., Crisostomo B.A., Magcale-Macandog D.B., and Delgado M.E.M. 2004. Growth performance of four commonly grown agroforestry tree species in an upland ecosystem: Assessment of tree-site suitability using field survey, GIS and multivariate analysis. In Proceedings of the IUFRO Workshop on Landscape Ecology 2002: Conservation and Management of Fragmented Forest Landscapes, October 25-28, 2004. Makoto Sano, Asako Miyamoto and Ken Sugimura (eds.). Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Japan. ISBN 4-902606-01-1

Pasicolan P.N., Magcale-Macandog D.B., and Delgado M.E.M. 2004. Mainstreaming agroforestry adoption: actors, motivations and options. In Book of Abstracts of the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry: Working Together for Sustainable Land Use Systems. Samuel C. Allen (ed.) 27 June - 2 July 2004. Orlando, Florida, USA. Available online http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/WCA/Abstracts2.pdf

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