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Northern Mindanao Ecological Footprint Report 2016 Northern Mindanao 2016 Ecological Footprint Report 2 Northern Mindanao 2016 Ecological Footprint Report Table of Contents The designations employed and the presentation of materials 01 Introduction 37 Measuring Humanity’s Demand on Nature in the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity analysis do not Philippines imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of Global Footprint Network or its partner organizations 03 The Concepts of Ecological Footprint Mindanao concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or Ecological Footprint, Biocapacity and Overshoot Key Drivers area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its Why it Matters Risks and Opportunities frontiers or boundaries. 11 Overview: 45 Ecological Footprint and For further information, please contact: The Philippines’ Ecological Situation Human Development Index (HDI) Global Footprint Network Ecological Footprint in Context: Philippines Raising Quality of Life Without Increasing Mindanao Demand on Nature 426 17th Street, Suite 700 Northern Mindanao Ecological Footprint in Policymaking Oakland, California 94612 USA Bukidnon AFD Mindanao Planning Matrix +1.510.839.8879 Forest Land Use Planning 23 Ecological Footprint: Key Findings Comprehensive Land Use Planning www.footprintnetwork.org Focus on Northern Mindanao’s Comprehensive Development Planning Ecological Footprint Policy Recommendations 29 Biocapacity: Key Findings 61 Scenarios and Links to Renaissance Project © Text and graphics: 2016 Global Footprint Network. Mindanao’s Biocapacity Cropland Projections All rights reserved. Any reproduction in full or in part of Forest Land Projections this publication must mention the title and credit the Forest and Cropland Biocapacity: aforementioned publisher as the copyright owner. Northern Mindanao & Bukidnon Project Renaissance Goals Northern Mindanao: Factors Affecting Cropland Footprint and Biocapacity 67 Appendix: Ecological Footprint 69 Acknowledgements Executive Summary Using the Ecological Footprint Policy and Planning In 2015, Global Footprint Network collaborated with National governments currently using the Ecological Comprehensive Development Planning the Philipine government and the Agence Française Footprint are able to, 1) Assess the value of A key component of CDP is the Environmental de Développement (AFD) to undertake a study of their country’s ecological assets, 2) Monitor Management Plan, which consolidates the and manage their assets, 3) Identify the risks the Nothern Mindanao/Bukidnon river basin region environmental consequences of all development associated with ecological deficits, and 4) Use to understand the benefits of integrating Ecological proposals within the municipality, with the end data to inform and benchmark policy. The findings goal of providing mitigating and preventive Footprint and biocapacity frameworks into climate in this report, and continued application of the interventions to anticipate their adverse impacts resilient land use and local development planning. Footprint can be used to support Forest Land Use to the environment. In addition, the CDP requires This effort suported AFD’s Renaissance Project Finding: The Philipines overall has a very small Planning, Comprehensive Land Use Planning, the study of the various demands and pressures activities by providing scientific data that provided amount of available resources within its borders and Comprehensive Development Planning in on a given ecosystem. Current Ecological Footprint (only 0.54 gha available per person). the Philippines. Awareness of biocapacity and context and guidance for specific interventions. and biocapacity assessments show that resource consumption trends provides holistic and long- use in the region exceeds that which the land is Insight: The Philippines must rely on importing term views in the management and governance of able to provide without trade. Thus, Ecological Snapshot of Findings—Bukidnon goods to sustain the activities and livelihoods of ecosystems. Footprint can help identify which issues need to be the people who live in the country—even those in Forest Land Use Planning addressed most urgently from a broad perspective. Finding: Since 1970, the Philipines’ per person Bukidnon with the smallest Footprints. Ecological Footprint has risen only slightly, while at Ecological Footprint and biocapacity trends assess Renaissance Project Interventions the same time the country has made steady gains Finding: Cropland area in Bukidnon has expanded forest area, forest productivity, and forest product As stipulated in the Project Renaissance feasibility in its Human Development Index score. by almost 30%, resulting in a 17% increase in use. The broader situational outlook of declines study prepared by Oréade-Brèche in March cropland biocapacity since 2000. in forest biocapacity helps identify specific risks 2015, two key factors in achieving Renaissance’s Insight: While the Human Development Index shows and opportunities to better position Renaissance sustainability goals are greater long-term vision, that the average resident has achieved higher levels Insight: Forest land biocapacity steadily decreasing Project interventions for success. and increased involvement of, and leadership from, of development, the Philipines’ Gini coefficient— while cropland biocapacity in-creases reveals local communities. Ecological Footprint science an indicator of income disparity—is the highest Comprehensive Land Use Planning some shifting of Footprint and biocapacity via land provides important data concerning these two of counties in Southeast Asia. Average measures The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) conversion. factors. Comprehensive Ecological Footprint time of development may not reflect segments of the is a development plan that contains specific trends completed for this report not only show population that do not have access to resources proposals to guide and regulate growth of a city Finding: The largest proportion of the region’s the stark reality of ecological resource use from requited to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, or municipality. Detailed Ecological Footprint data Ecological Footprint of consumption is food. 1961—2012 but also offer insight into what the health, and sanitation. from the Consumption Land Use Matrix (CLUM) resource situation will be under business as usual identify the largest consumption categories for Insight: Conversion of forest lands to croplands operations. And, as noted in the findings above, Finding: Residents of Bukidnon have the smallest the region and the land uses required to provide may, in the short term, increase food production to the Footprint reveals that Bukidnon residents do Footprint per person among all the provinces of the those resources. Identification of these categories, meet demand. However, as population continues to not have access to sufficient materials to meet Mindanao (about 0.61 gha per person). coupled with other social and economic context, grow in the region, the conversion of cropland into basic needs. Involvement of local communities in provides insight into the drivers of consumption, Insight: People in Bukidnon likely do not have the residential, industrial and commercial areas adds Renaissance sustainability efforts can help address and can inform comprehensive land use planning access to sufficient materials to meet basic needs, an additional challenge to sustainably managing the issue. by highlighting gaps between available biocapacity including food and shelter. sufficient cropland for food security. and the resource metabolism of the region. i ii Introduction Global Footprint Network and the Philippine sustainable development, increase resilience to Together, these three studies offer a Government, through the Climate Change disasters, and address the economic implications Introduction comprehensive look at the ecological state of the Commission of the Philippines, launched a of climate change lay a strong foundation for Philippines from a variety of perspectives: national, partnership in 2012 to complete Phase 1 of a working with officials in the province of Bukidnon The Phillipines has robust plans to prioritize subnational and local. Starting from a wide National Footprint Project for the Philippines on sustainability frameworks implementation and sustainable development goals focus, the first study gave an introduction to the (funded by Agency Française de Développement – policy applications. methodology and concept of resource accounting, Nothern Mindanao, and Bukidnon Province AFD), and in 2013 completed Phase 2 of the project, Once again, Global Footprint Network has while breaking down the Ecological Footprint of the specifically, are focus areas a sub-regional Footprint Project for the Laguna partnered with the Agence Française de Philippines by the various land types. The second Lake region. Phase 2 was completed in partnership Développement to complete a Footprint study of Global Footprint Network’s Ecological Footprint study showed the scalability of the Footprint tool, with the Laguna Lake Development Authority Northern Mindanao. metrics provide scientific foundation for focusing on the Laguna Lake area, home to Metro (LLDA) and the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Manila, and offering comparable data from the The primary objective for this project is to conduct regulation efforts Environmental Protection (OPAEP) and was funded subnational to the national level for context. by the Australian government through AusAID.
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