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Root and Tuber Crops: Production-Use Systems and Food Resilience in Agri-Aqua and Agro-Forestry Ecosystems in Central Philippines Results of a Scoping Study

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Root and Tuber Crops: Production-Use Systems and Food Resilience in Agri-Aqua and Agro-Forestry Ecosystems in Central Philippines Results of a Scoping Study 1 FoodSTART + Food Resilience Through Root and Tuber Crops in Upland and Coastal Communities of the Asia-Pacific Root and Tuber Crops: Production-use Systems and Food Resilience in Agri-aqua and Agro-forestry Ecosystems in Central Philippines Results of a Scoping Study April 2016 Julieta Roa, Arma Bertuso, Divina Villaber, FishCORAL and INREMP team 2 CONTENTS Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 10 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 12 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................. 12 1.2 Objectives ................................................................................................................... 14 1.3 Scoping study process and work team ......................................................................... 14 2 METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................ 16 2.1 Secondary data and documents .................................................................................. 16 2.1.1 Field appraisals: primary data gathering .................................................................. 16 2.1.2 Location mapping and RTC suitability ..................................................................... 18 3 SITUATION ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................ 22 3.1 Eastern Visayas, Region 8 ............................................................................................ 22 3.1.1 Poverty situation ..................................................................................................... 22 3.1.2 Nutrition status ........................................................................................................ 23 3.1.3 Human development index…………………………………………………………………………..23 3.1.4 Agri-industry of Eastern Visayas .............................................................................. 25 3.1.5 Disaster situation ..................................................................................................... 27 3.1.6 Characterizing the project sites of FishCORAL-FoodSTART+ .................................. 28 3.2 Bohol Province ............................................................................................................ 31 3.2.1 Poverty situation ..................................................................................................... 31 3.2.2 Human development index ...................................................................................... 31 3.2.3 Nutrition status ........................................................................................................ 32 3.2.4 Agri-Industry in Bohol Province ............................................................................... 33 3.2.5 Disaster situation ..................................................................................................... 34 3.2.6 Characterizing INREMP project sites ........................................................................ 35 3.3 General information on root and tuber crops ............................................................... 36 3.4 RTC value chains .......................................................................................................... 38 3.4.1 FishCORAL .............................................................................................................. 38 3.4.2 INREMP ................................................................................................................... 39 3.5 RTC for food security, nutrition, and livelihood ............................................................ 40 3.5.1 Food and diet ........................................................................................................... 40 3.5.2 Root crops and livelihood ......................................................................................... 40 3.5.3 Vulnerability ............................................................................................................ 41 4 STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS ................................................................................................. 42 3 5 KEY CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RTCS TO ENHANCE FOOD RESILIENCE ........................................................................................................................ 45 5.1 Issues related to vulnerability, resilience capacity, and role of RTCs in post-disaster situations and extreme weather events ....................................................................... 45 5.2 Perceptions of food security and insecurity ................................................................. 45 5.3 Changes in the roles of men and women ..................................................................... 46 5.4 Perceptions of “good” food, consumption and nutrition, and livelihood activities ....... 46 5.5 Adaptive or organization capacity ............................................................................... 46 6 CONCLUSIONS: KEY FOCUS AREAS, AND PRIORITIES FOR ACTION RESEACH AND POLICY INFLUENCE ................................................................................................................................ 48 6.1 Opportunities .............................................................................................................. 48 6.2 Prioritization................................................................................................................ 48 6.3 Agreed action plan ....................................................................................................... 48 7 WORKS CITED .................................................................................................................... 50 ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................... 51 4 TABLE Table 1. Scoping study team ...................................................................................................... 15 Table 2. FGD participants in the two project sites .......................................................................17 Table 3. FGD site selection criteria ............................................................................................. 18 Table 4. FishCORAL-FoodSTART+ identified focus sites ........................................................... 19 Table 5. INREMP site characteristics .......................................................................................... 21 Table 6. Human Development Index, Philippines, National Capital Region and Eastern Visayas, 1997-2009 .................................................................................................................... 25 Table 7. Growth rate of the volume of production on agriculture and fishery industry in Region 8 between the years 2010-2014 (in MT) .......................................................................... 26 Table 8. FishCORAL-FoodSTART+ sites in Eastern Visayas ....................................................... 28 Table 9. Biophysical features of FishCORAL-FoodSTART+ sites…………………………………………29 Table 10. Human development index of Bohol and NCR in comparison with that of the Philippines ................................................................................................................... 31 Table 11. Nutrition status of children in Bohol based on 2014 Operation Timbang results .......... 32 Table 12. Growth rate of the volume of production of the agriculture industry in Bohol between the years 2010 to 2014 (in MT) ..................................................................................... 34 Table 13. Biophysical data of Bohol sites ..................................................................................... 35 Table 14. Root crop production area (ha) in FishCORAL sites ...................................................... 36 Table 15. Root crop production areas (ha) at INREMP sites ......................................................... 37 Table 16. Stakeholder analysis……………………………………………………………………………………….42 Table 17. Potential RTC enterprises that can be launched in FishCORAL focus sites ................... 49 Table 18. Potential RTC enterprises that can be engaged in by POs under INREMP .................... 49 5 FIGURES Figure 1. FoodSTART+ partners in the Philippines ...................................................................... 18 Figure 2. Mapped focus sites of FishCORAL-FoodSTART+ ......................................................... 19 Figure 3. Site map for DENR-INREMP Bohol showing four watersheds and INREMP-FoodSTART+ sites ............................................................................................................................. 20 Figure 4. Poverty incidence among populations of Region 8 in the years 2006, 2009, and 2012 ..................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 5. Poverty incidence among families in Region 8 in the years 2006, 2009, and 2012 ........ 23 Figure 6. Trends in the prevalence of malnutrition among 0-6 year-old children, 2005-2009 ..... 24 Figure 7. Volume of Production on Agriculture and Fishery Industry in Region 8 ......................
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