Policy imperatives for Southeast Asia's regional food systems under climate change

Many Southeast Asian countries are fast changing with strong economic growth, population increase and rapid urbanization. With rising income, consumers in the region are diversifying their diet from staples to more high-value products such as meat, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables.
At the same time, these fast rising countries are highly vulnerable to extreme events such as drought, flooding, typhoons, salinity intrusions and sea level rise. The preparedness of these countries to advice farmers in high risk zones to diversify away from paddy to more climate resilient crops such as corn, legumes, roots and tubers in a timely manner could save livelihood of millions of small poor farmers.
The objective of this proposal is to develop policy and institutional framework to mitigate the effects of extreme weather events in high risk zones of Vietnam and the Philippines through policy dialogue and crop diversification. In a nutshell, the specific objectives can be broken down into the following two components. The first component focuses on generating and disseminating scientific evidence of benefits of crop diversification in rice-based cropping system. The second component specifically focuses on strengthening seed systems through policy reforms and private sector participation. The project aims to accelerate crop diversification in high risk zones of Vietnam and the Philippines and raises income of 100,000 farmers by 20%. This is expected to improve the sustainability of rice based systems and improve nutrition security.
Project Deliverables
Discussion paper/Working paper/White paper
Climate-Resilient Agriculture in The Philippines: Climate Risk Profile, Visayas
Discussion paper/Working paper/White paper
Climate-Resilient Agriculture in The Philippines: Climate Risk Profile, Luzon
Research workshop report
Climate-Resilient Agriculture in The Philippines: Climate Risk Profile, Mindanao
Policy brief/policy note/briefing paper
Climate-Smart Agriculture for Punjab, Pakistan
Journal Article (peer reviewed)
Reviewing Vietnam's Nationally Determined Contribution: A New Perspective Using the Marginal Cost of Abatement
Data portal/Tool/Model code/Computer software
Cost benefit analysis tool for climate smart agricultural practices/technologies.
Policy brief/policy note/briefing paper
CSA Country Profiles for Thailand
Discussion paper/Working paper/White paper
CSA Investment Plan for Bangladesh
Article for media/Magazine/Other (not peer-reviewed)
Policy Forum on identifying opportunities for climate smart food system in the Philippines
Article for media/Magazine/Other (not peer-reviewed)
Policy forum on identifying opportunities for climate smart food system in Vietnam
Discussion paper/Working paper/White paper
Structural Shifts in Food Basket of Rural and Urban Filipinos: Implications for Future Food Supply System
Discussion paper/Working paper/White paper
Identification of high-risk zones vulnerable to changing climate and Suitability mapping of climate resilient crops in high risk zones.
Factsheet, Project Note
Background study on varietal release procedure and current seed system in Vietnam and the Philippines for roots and tubers and other climate resilient crops.
Partners
- Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) (CIAT (Alliance))
- Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
- Department of Agriculture (Philippines) (DA)
- Department of Science and Technology (Philippines) (DOST)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS)