Semi-annual report: VAF policy study year 4
Executive Summary: Given the analysis of the policy environment of VAF system in the Philippines as basis, the second objectives of the policy study, which is […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D. Catacutan
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The policy environment of vegetable-agroforestry in the Philippines and Vietnam: A scoping study
The viability of Vegetable-Agroforestry (VAf) system is constrained by various factors, including farmers’ inability to invest in the system, inadequate institutional structures for facilitating information flow, […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D.C. Catacutan; D.T. Ha; C. Duque-Pinon; L.T. Loan
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Market networking and trading: Transforming women’s lives in Southern Philippines
Abstract: An informal group of rural women residing in a Southern Philippine watershed community demonstrates that networking and market participation are viable means for self-transformation amidst […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): E. Chiong-Javier
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Marketing, gender and sustainable vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) production
Summary: The author presents the De La Salle University Social Development Research Center’s involvement with TMPEGS. The research had two parts: 1) market value chain research […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): E. Chiong-Javier
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Upland crops can be irrigated efficiently and cheaply
Summary: This newsletter article was based on an interview with Dr. Victor B. Ella by Mr. Florante Cruz, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): F. Cruz
- Type of Document: Newsletter
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for Watershed Services in Asia: A review of current initiatives
This paper evaluates 15 current Payment for Watershed Services (PWS) schemes in Asia, most of which are just beginning. High population density and the legal context […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): M. Huang; S.K. Upadhyaya; R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Semi-annual reports: Marketing Indonesia Year 4
Executive Summary: The creation of market linkage for vegetables was selected as an entry point to strengthen smallholder vegetable agroforestry systems in Nanggung, West Java, Indonesia. […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): O. Kurniawan; J. Roshetko
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Termite bio-control on cacao seedling: Vetiver grass application
Abstract: Over the past decade, cacao (Theobroma cacao) has been introduced to the agroforestry systems in some upland provinces of southern Vietnam to improve the income […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): L.V. Du; N.H. Truc
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Climate change and agriculture: Adaptations mitigation strategies
Contents: What is it all About? (A bit of down to earth science) How Bad will it Be? (Impacts and vulnerability) What Can we Do about […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): M.V.O. Espaldon
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Knowledge system in climate change adaptation among upland farming communities in the Philippines
Contents: Climate change Kinds of knowledge systems Science vs. traditional ecological knowledge Use of multiple knowledge systems in climate change adaptation: Examples
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): M.V.O. Espaldon; T. Lawas; F. Pulhin; K. Garcia
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management