| Sumario: | A recent Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
report states that climate change is unequivocal and its
immediate impact is the modification of the worlds’ biophysical
and natural systems resulting to changes in interspecies
dynamics, movement of range, altered abundance, and shift in
seasonal activities in various ecosystems. Agriculture will be
the hardest hit sector globally as its productivity is primarily
based on the integrity of agro-ecosystems. Adverse impacts to
agriculture will have direct impacts on livelihoods, food
security, and nutrition in rural areas. Climate resilient or smart agriculture (CRA/CSA), as a climate
change response, provides an option for resource poor farmers
in rural areas through its three- tiered objectives, which are: (a)
increasing agriculture productivity and income in a sustainable,
environmentally sound manner; (b) building capacity of
households and food systems to adapt to climate change; and
(c) reducing emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG’s) while
increasing carbon sequestration of agro-ecosystems. Healthy
landscapes support food security, livelihoods, and ecosystem
functions (helping build resilience). Global knowledge and experience on CRA/CSA is already vast.
IIRR believes that its greater adoption by small-holder farmers,
especially in the Philippine context, could be facilitated and
accelerated, if and when, interventions are coordinated and
done through community-based approaches. Communitybased
participatory adaptation will be facilitated if interventions
are undertaken through multiscalar and multisectoral
approaches, with public and private actors converging their
services at community and sub-national levels.
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