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