Scaling the capacities to adapt to a changing climate: Experiences of the AMIA Climate Resilient Villages, Philippines

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 example of CCAFS Climate-Smart Villages. The learnings from this study suggest that the AMIA villages already possess the needed ingredients for developing into sustained innovation platforms. The functional capacities of the AMIA village leaders could still be strengthened with regard to addressing institutional bottlenecks at all levels, e.g. by developing further change management, negotiation and advocacy skills. This is not surprising given the early stage of implementation of many AMIA villages, and the iterative design of the process

Native pigs: a climate resilient business enterprise

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and CCAFS introduced the low external input project on small-livestock system to communities in Guinayangan Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in the Philippines. This is part of the Developing Scalable Approaches for Community Based Adaption project of IIRR. Climate-smart agriculture approaches, including those in livestock production, were introduced to help build farm resilience in anticipation of the impacts of climate change. The experiences shared in this publication was generated over 6 years. Replication are now seen in nearly all of the Philippine Department of Agriculture CSVs

Climate resilience in agriculture: Key concepts for community-based adaptation

These primer was produced for a project under CCAFs, jointly implemented by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), Philippines and the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Vietnam Country Office. CCAFS Project No.: P55-FPI-SEA-ICRA