Encouraging local participation. A municipal field extensionist attends the Training of Trainers conducted by SFITAL to capacitate local partners on the management of cacao agroforestry systems. Photo: ICRAF/Erwin Albios
In land restoration, farmers are not just mere recipients but major partners in implementation because they are the ones working in the field. Photo shows members of a people's organization tending crops at one of the INREMP sites at Mt Data, Bauko, Mountain Province. Photo: ICRAF/Grace Ann Reynoso
In land restoration, farmers are not just mere recipients but major partners in implementation because they are the ones working in the field. Photo shows members of a people s organization tending crops at one of the INREMP sites at Mt Data, Bauko, Mountain Province. Photo: ICRAF/Grace Ann Reynoso
One of the world’s largest restoration projects has overcome challenges thanks to partnerships that changed mindsets and the ways things are done.
The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project in the Philippines is one of the planet’s most ambitious restoration projects. It is led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, known as DENR, with substantial funding from the Asian Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Global Environment Facility and the Government of the Philippines. World Agroforestry (ICRAF) has been providing technical support in the last two and a half years of the project.
If you’re a farmer or know one, you will likewise know that it’s a risky business and becoming more so as the climate becomes increasingly unreliable and extreme.
Agricultural risk management is well established in developed countries but less so in developing countries, where, if it exists at all, typically is provided only for major monoculturally grown staples, such as rice. Agricultural risk management can be defined as identifying, assessing ‘qualitatively and quantitively’, and adopting preventive or mitigating measures against risks that affect agricultural production.
The absence in most countries of any kind of insurance product for mixed farming systems, such as agroforestry, which have been proven to be more resilient is a huge barrier for farmers wanting to establish climate-smart systems.