Understanding Climate Change: A primer for local government officials in the Philippines

Understanding the impacts of climate change on agriculture, associated landscapes and natural resources in general is crucial if local development efforts are to be tailored towards addressing the impacts of climate change. Simplification of scientific concepts can help local planners to introduce and then mainstream strategies that have factored in the impacts from climate change

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

Participatory Vulnerability Assessments in support of Community Based Adaption

This publication is derived from a real life exercise in applying participatory vulnerability methods in 11 villages/barangays in the Municipality of Guinayangan , Quezon, Philippines. These villages were among those designated as climate smart villages, under the CCAFS global initiative to set up climate smart villages as platforms for climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The project in the Philippines was entitled “Generating an evidence base for upscaling local adaptation thorough Climate Smart Agriculture “(P56). This compilation includes tools and methods, facilitators guides and the actual outputs from the 9 villages. These Participatory Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) studies encompass a wider range of components (such as livelihood analysis, and seasonal charts) beyond what is included in desk based, climate vulnerability studies. Gender is prominently featured in these proposed methods and in the derived outputs. These PVA studies, which typically last three days per village, engaged and involved local communities and local government representatives, bringing their perspectives to bear on the problem analysis, thus distinguishing itself from other efforts that rely primarily on secondary data. Data derived from community studies however is ideally also complemented by secondary data derived from desk based studies. Such assessments are regularly revisited and updated. These methods have since already been shared with the Philippines Department of Agriculture and used in trainings and capacity building efforts of the Department of Agriculture Climate Resilient Agriculture Office (DA CRAO) and Agricultural Training Institute (DA ATI)

Climate Smart Agriculture: a primer of local government officials in the Philippines

Climate smart agriculture concepts and principles must be simplified for local government officials to be able to operationalize key elements into local development programs. Climate smart agriculture needs to be simplified and often demystified in order to enhance its wider up take at sub regional and local levels

Climate Smart Agriculture: a primer of local government officials in the Philippines (Khmer Version)

The primer helps to identify and address important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between and among climate change, agriculture and food security. ‘Understanding Climate Change’ explains the definition of climate change, stressing on greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and their impacts on agriculture. Local partners of CCAFS, including local government units, media practitioners, and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector, are the primary audience of the primer. This version is translated in Khmer (the national language of Cambodia)

Biến đổi khí hậu và ảnh hưởng của biến đổi khí hậu tới nông nghiệp - Tài liệu dùng cho cán bộ địa phương các cấp của Việt Nam

The primer helps to identify and address important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between and among climate change, agriculture and food security. ‘Understanding Climate Change’ explains the definition of climate change, stressing on greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and their impacts on agriculture. Local partners of CCAFS, including local government units, media practitioners, and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector, are the primary audience of the primer. This version is translated in Ilokano (the language in the northern region of the Philippines)