Since 2015, the Philippines Department of Agriculture (DA) mainstreams climate resilient agriculture (CRA) across all its programs, functions, and agencies through the national and system-wide AMIA program. As part of this AMIA program, DA created “AMIA villages” in 21 regions, following the exam...
Koerner, Jana
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Bayot, Ruvicyn S.
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Rosimo, Maggie
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Vidallo, Rene
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Gonsalves, Julian
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[Scaling the capacities to adapt to a changing climate: Experiences of the AMIA Climate Resilient Villages, Philippines]
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Scaling the capacities to adapt to a changing climate: Experiences of the AMIA Climate Resilient Villages, Philippines
Local adaptation platforms help empower sub-national and local government players, civil society organizations, and public-private partnerships in demonstrating the validity of agro-ecology-specific solutions to current and future climate change impacts. This brief discusses how Climate-Smart Vil...
Vidallo, Rene
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Bayot, Ruvicyn
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Rosimo, Magnolia
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Monville-Oro, Emilita
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Gonsalves, Julian
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Ilaga, Alicia
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Sebastian, Leocadio S
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Manalo, U-Nichols
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Baltazar, Perla
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[Fostering local adaptation platforms for agriculture: How context specific climate-smart villages (CSVs) can relate to local adaptation efforts.]
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Fostering local adaptation platforms for agriculture: How context specific climate-smart villages (CSVs) can relate to local adaptation efforts.
This document highlights the key messages drawn from climate adaptation efforts and events done with Philippines’ Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Offices (DA-RFOs) across the country. This brief, developed for the Climate Change Consciousness Week, offers DA a synthesis of lessons from t...
The brief tackles how the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Program of the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) served as a platform for supporting local actions for climate resilient agriculture. The document discusses a number of key lessons emerging from the AMI...
This brief summarizes the findings of a case study of a diversification effort undertaken in Guinayangan Climate-Smart Village. Small livestock systems, a climate-smart agriculture practice, present a less risk-prone livelihood venture. It can feature as a diversification agenda, reducing the ri...
Rosimo, Magnolia
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Gonsalves, Julian
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Gammelgaard, Johanna
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Vidallo, Rene
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Oro, Emilita
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[Addressing gender-based impacts of climate change: A case study of Guinayangan, Philippines]
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Addressing gender-based impacts of climate change: A case study of Guinayangan, Philippines
The brief summarizes the results of a literature review on equity, empowerment and gender relations for climate-smart agriculture programming. The review found out that a wider and more equitable gender sensitivity is now seen amongst policy makers and local government, with a corresponding enhan...
Villavicencio, Francia
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Rosimo, Magnolia
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Vidallo, Rene
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Oro, Emilita
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Gonsalves, Julian
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[Equity, empowerment and gender relations: A literature review of special relevance for climate-smart agriculture programming]
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Equity, empowerment and gender relations: A literature review of special relevance for climate-smart agriculture programming
Feeding and nourishing a growing and changing global population in the face of
rising numbers of chronically hungry people, slow progress on malnutrition,
environmental degradation, systemic inequality, and the dire projections of climate
change, demands a transformation in global food systems. P...
Rawe, Tonya
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Antonelli, Marta
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Chatrchyan, Allison
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Clayton, Terry
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Fanzo, Jessica
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Gonsalves, Julian
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Matthews, Alan
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Nierenberg, Danielle
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Zurek, Monika
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[Local to global policy as a catalyst for change: key messages]
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Local to global policy as a catalyst for change: key messages