Marlito Bande

Associate Professor
Former Director of the Institute of Tropical Ecology and Environmental Management at Visayas State University (VSU)

Marlito Bande is an Associate Professor and former Director of the Institute of Tropical Ecology and Environmental Management at Visayas State University (VSU) in the Philippines. He is a leading proponent of Rainforestation, an agroforestry strategy that integrates native forest trees, which was developed at VSU. He has published widely in scholarly books and peer-reviewed journals on agroecology, community-based forest restoration, rainforestation, and biodiversity conservation. He is an agroecologist by profession, and holds a Doctorate in Agroecology from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.