Papers by Angelica Barlis
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Jun 1, 2020
and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have joined efforts in a new project called CliSM, 'A Climate Serv... more and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have joined efforts in a new project called CliSM, 'A Climate Services Menu for South East Asia'. Building on different field-tested climate services (CS) approaches across heterogeneous rural livelihoods, the project aims at improving the understanding for designing and implementing scalable CS. The project will result in a methodology to assess and implement scaling pathways for CS for decision-making institutions and practitioners of CS development, and guidelines for policy makers and practitioners.
Smart adaptation to climate through adoption of agro-climatic services
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Nov 24, 2020
The National Agricultural Extension Center organized a training course "Methods and skills f... more The National Agricultural Extension Center organized a training course "Methods and skills for transferring technical advances to production organizations" on 23-28 November 2020 for 60 agricultural extension officers at provincial and district levels of five northern mountainous provinces and 9 Red River Delta provinces. One of the modules was on climate services for agriculture with ICRAF and CIAT served as resource speakers, introducing the concept of climate information and how it can be applied and support the crop planning and decision-making especially in the midst of climate variability. The training focused on solutions towards smart agriculture adapted to climate change (including effective use of climate information) in order to achieve the benefits of food security which includes reducing labor, inputs for production, creating new smart adaptation products to increase productivity, income, nutrition and product diversity. Adapting to damaging cold, hot winds, drought, heavy rains, saltwater intrusion, hurricanes, landslides, soil erosion and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fertilizer use, methane emissions, reducing fossil fuels/ using renewable energy and minimizing soil erosion were also discussed during this event
Sustainability
This study examines Cambodian rice farmers’ willingness to pay for the weather-indexed insurance ... more This study examines Cambodian rice farmers’ willingness to pay for the weather-indexed insurance (WII) proposed to manage the financial impact of shifting monsoon rainfall patterns in Battambang Province in north-western Cambodia. Detailed interviews are conducted in the districts of Bavel and Thma Koul. We first analyse farmer respondents’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, climate change perceptions and experience, risk attitudes, and awareness of insurance. The binary logistic model is used to identify factors that significantly impact farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for WII. Our results show that farmers in general had lower awareness of how to use innovative financial products to adapt to extreme weather. The results also demonstrate that farmer respondents’ marital status, the number of off-farm labourers, and the farm size have a positive effect, whereas the number of children in the household has a negative effect on farmers’ WTP for WII. Specifically, being ma...
KEY MESSAGES • Participatory climate risk and livelihoods mapping provides specific information t... more KEY MESSAGES • Participatory climate risk and livelihoods mapping provides specific information that is required to deliver more salient climate services (CS) for farmers within the context of farm decisionmaking. • Each major cropping and livelihood system has different CS requirements in terms of their temporal and spatial scale. • The identification of relevant actors to tailor CS and building partnerships at the local level is crucial to better define mandate, roles, and types of support that each actor can provide. • It is important to consider the anticipated future changes in peoples' livelihoods and zones since these have important implications for designing CS-related programs and integrating the CS agenda into the national or provincial climate change adaptation planning.
Farmer business school: a climate-smart and gender-responsive approach
Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer grou... more Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer groups' participation in agricultural value chains. As part of capacity strengthen-ing, FBS comprises a series of group-based experiential learning activities over a pro-duction-marketing cycle while interacting with other chain actors and stakeholders
Food system transformations will require a new approach towards innovation to be able to deliver ... more Food system transformations will require a new approach towards innovation to be able to deliver impacts at scale. Innovations need to be context-specific and respond to myriads of different famers’ needs. Modular design is a ‘new’ way to design, bundle and scale innovations. This Info Note outlines the main principles and phases of modular design, with the example of Climate Information Services (CIS). Special attention would need to be given to aspects of inclusion, data ownership and a potential misuse of the approach to scale unsustainable practices
Several CS projects have been implemented recently to meet the increasing demand from farmers and... more Several CS projects have been implemented recently to meet the increasing demand from farmers and other decision makers in the Global South for climate information and agro-advisories. This has led to two main concerns: (1) how CS products and services can be improved for the benefit of small-scale farmers at different scales; and (2) how to sustain (successful) CS projects beyond the end their lifetime. Addressing these two questions will require pathways for scaling CS projects. Hence, 20 CS projects across Asia, Africa and Latin America were reviewed through a mix of desk research and interviews (both virtual and face-to-face) with project practitioners to solicit their views of and experiences with CS projects, the provided services and products, and scaling. Results showed that the CS sector has clearly matured in recent decades. CS providers focus mainly on translation and transfer of climate date, and rely on observational data and climate and hydrological models, from nation...
Climate service value chain towards end users
With the purpose of contributing to the development of agro-climatic research and services in Vie... more With the purpose of contributing to the development of agro-climatic research and services in Vietnam, within the framework of cooperation between the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change (IMHEN) and CARE International in Vietnam, a technical and national workshop on “Agro-Climate Services: Needs and Opportunities” was organized to review the current status of climate information services in agriculture, as well as the needs, challenges and opportunities to develop climate information services in the sector. CARE, ICRAF and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have put together a presentation to further introduce the climate service value chain and its stages and how it relates to the needs of the end users of information, primarily, smallholder farmers. Several cases and experiences at different levels were presented during the workshop highlighting the lessons learned from Ha Tinh province and initial findings from the Mekong River Delta
Collaborative Approach in Knowledge Product Development (Know-Dev) is a facilitated process of de... more Collaborative Approach in Knowledge Product Development (Know-Dev) is a facilitated process of developing knowledge products in a collaborative learning-oriented mode. As a knowledge management approach, it supports efforts by research and development projects in transforming field-based
experiences into more accessible, user-friendly knowledge.
Presented in this publication are nine cases of development innovations selected from the IFAD co... more Presented in this publication are nine cases of development innovations selected from the IFAD country programme in the Philippines. These cases, selected and largely written by practitioners based on their experiences, reflect scaling up initiatives at different stages of maturity. It ranges from relatively simple approaches to more complex schemes.
Barlis, A., Bertuso, A. and Campilan, D. 2014. Farmer Business School: Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Connect to New Markets. Moving Up Innovations to Scale: Lessons from IFAD-supported Development Interventions in the Philippines.: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). P.73-82.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
encourages collaboration among its p... more The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
encourages collaboration among its programmes in the Philippines to ensure complementation of different agencies in achieving their respective project goals and objectives.
The Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource
Management Project (CHARMP2), one of the country programmes of IFAD, identified roots and tuber crops as priority crops for value chain development within the project areas, hence leading to the collaboration with the Food Security Through Asian Roots and Tubers (FoodSTART), an IFAD grant project led by the International Potato
Center (CIP).
The primary goal of this collaborative project is to support
the development and strengthening of root and tuber crops (RTC) value chains with potential pro-poor impact for small-scale farming households in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). One of the outputs identified is the Farmer Business School (FBS) adapted and field-tested to meet the needs and opportunities for agricultural value chain development in CAR.
Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer grou... more Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer groups’ participation in agricultural value chains. As part of capacity strengthen-ing, FBS comprises a series of group-based experiential learning activities over a pro-duction-marketing cycle while interacting with other chain actors and stakeholders.
The general assessment sites are located in the province of Benguet and Ifugao in Cordillera Admi... more The general assessment sites are located in the province of Benguet and Ifugao in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). The sites are divided into two RTC systems, home-use and market-oriented.
Home-use sites include Asipulo and Kiangan in Ifugao and Itogon in Benguet. Meanwhile, Kapangan in Benguet is the only market-oriented assessment site.
One of the project objectives of FoodSTART is to map and prioritize areas where a high incidence ... more One of the project objectives of FoodSTART is to map and prioritize areas where a high incidence of food insecurity and poverty overlap with RTCs production and consumption.
Mapping available RTCs production overlap with poverty and malnutrition data using multi-methods is something unique with this food security project.
There are queries on the accuracy of the official published national data vis-à-vis on-the-ground available data on RTCs.
To explore this premise, FoodSTART conducted a pilot mapping in the Philippines that aimed to: a) gather baseline data on RTCs production as one of the bases for project intervention; b) generate maps showing the distribution of RTC production in the country – to help locate areas of sufficiency/insufficiency; and c) make compatible formats with other economic indicators (poverty, malnutrition data) to identify target areas for intervention.
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Barlis, A., Bertuso, A. and Campilan, D. 2014. Farmer Business School: Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Connect to New Markets. Moving Up Innovations to Scale: Lessons from IFAD-supported Development Interventions in the Philippines.: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). P.73-82.
encourages collaboration among its programmes in the Philippines to ensure complementation of different agencies in achieving their respective project goals and objectives.
The Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource
Management Project (CHARMP2), one of the country programmes of IFAD, identified roots and tuber crops as priority crops for value chain development within the project areas, hence leading to the collaboration with the Food Security Through Asian Roots and Tubers (FoodSTART), an IFAD grant project led by the International Potato
Center (CIP).
The primary goal of this collaborative project is to support
the development and strengthening of root and tuber crops (RTC) value chains with potential pro-poor impact for small-scale farming households in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). One of the outputs identified is the Farmer Business School (FBS) adapted and field-tested to meet the needs and opportunities for agricultural value chain development in CAR.
Home-use sites include Asipulo and Kiangan in Ifugao and Itogon in Benguet. Meanwhile, Kapangan in Benguet is the only market-oriented assessment site.
Mapping available RTCs production overlap with poverty and malnutrition data using multi-methods is something unique with this food security project.
There are queries on the accuracy of the official published national data vis-à-vis on-the-ground available data on RTCs.
To explore this premise, FoodSTART conducted a pilot mapping in the Philippines that aimed to: a) gather baseline data on RTCs production as one of the bases for project intervention; b) generate maps showing the distribution of RTC production in the country – to help locate areas of sufficiency/insufficiency; and c) make compatible formats with other economic indicators (poverty, malnutrition data) to identify target areas for intervention.
Drafts by Angelica Barlis
experiences into more accessible, user-friendly knowledge.
Barlis, A., Bertuso, A. and Campilan, D. 2014. Farmer Business School: Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Connect to New Markets. Moving Up Innovations to Scale: Lessons from IFAD-supported Development Interventions in the Philippines.: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). P.73-82.
encourages collaboration among its programmes in the Philippines to ensure complementation of different agencies in achieving their respective project goals and objectives.
The Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource
Management Project (CHARMP2), one of the country programmes of IFAD, identified roots and tuber crops as priority crops for value chain development within the project areas, hence leading to the collaboration with the Food Security Through Asian Roots and Tubers (FoodSTART), an IFAD grant project led by the International Potato
Center (CIP).
The primary goal of this collaborative project is to support
the development and strengthening of root and tuber crops (RTC) value chains with potential pro-poor impact for small-scale farming households in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). One of the outputs identified is the Farmer Business School (FBS) adapted and field-tested to meet the needs and opportunities for agricultural value chain development in CAR.
Home-use sites include Asipulo and Kiangan in Ifugao and Itogon in Benguet. Meanwhile, Kapangan in Benguet is the only market-oriented assessment site.
Mapping available RTCs production overlap with poverty and malnutrition data using multi-methods is something unique with this food security project.
There are queries on the accuracy of the official published national data vis-à-vis on-the-ground available data on RTCs.
To explore this premise, FoodSTART conducted a pilot mapping in the Philippines that aimed to: a) gather baseline data on RTCs production as one of the bases for project intervention; b) generate maps showing the distribution of RTC production in the country – to help locate areas of sufficiency/insufficiency; and c) make compatible formats with other economic indicators (poverty, malnutrition data) to identify target areas for intervention.