| ID: | 52625 |
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| Country: | Philippines |
| Title: | Philippines - Second Cordillera Highlands Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2)- June - 2017 |
| Description: |
The environment and climate in the mountainous Cordilleras are ideal for growing coffee. In the municipality of Bokod, in the Philippines’ northern Cordillera Administrative Region, farmers like Pepe Lao-an used to grow coffee in their back yard, but they didn’t consider it a viable source of income. Thanks to IFAD, Pepe and the other members of his Farmers’ Association were able to attend a farmer field school to learn improved methods of coffee planting, maintenance and harvesting. As a consequence, these trees now yield over 3 times as much coffee as before, harvesting requires less time, and it sells for up to 50% more. IFAD’s Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP 2) builds on the first CHARM Project, which contributed to reducing poverty among indigenous peoples in the highlands of the Cordillera Administrative Region, in the northern Philippines. It aims to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of indigenous peoples living in the poorest areas in all six provinces of the region. CHARMP 2 combines several innovative features in developing indigenous communities in remote areas. These include: strengthening participatory systems of community planning, monitoring and evaluation; enhancing the capacity of indigenous peoples and their councils of elders to take the lead in forestry/agroforestry management activities; providing funds for livelihood assistance to small groups; and commercialization of the products of indigenous peoples through market linkages. Find out more about Pepe’s story and IFAD’s CHARMP 2 project at http://bit.ly/2ACH1li. |
| Size: | 11.44 MB; 5760 x 3840 pixels; 488 x 325 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1524 x 1016 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Irshad Khan |
| Copyright: | © IFAD/Irshad Khan |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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