| ID: | 52660 |
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| Country: | Philippines |
| Title: | Philippines - Second Cordillera Highlands Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2)- June - 2017 |
| Description: |
Vincent Andawi is the manager of the Sagada Arabica Coffee Growers and Processors Organization (SACGPO), in the Mountain Province of the Philippines’ Cordillera Administrative Region. Through IFAD’s Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP 2), SACGPO were able to access technical and bookkeeping training as well as capital to enable them to take advantage of economies of scale. The amount of coffee SAGPO sell has increased by over 6 times, they can now pay their marketing personnel (who used to be volunteers), and employ additional staff at their processing facility. Their own members who also grow coffee were trained in production and post harvest, and since their coffee is of better quality they can sell it to SAGPO for higher than average prices. 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 IFAD’s CHARMP 2 project and how it supports farmers’ associations at http://bit.ly/2ACH1li. |
| Size: | 11.77 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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