AMICAF-Caraga 2013 Final Report October 2012 - December 2013

Parejo, S. R.;Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

AMICAF-Caraga 2013 Final Report October 2012 - December 2013

Year of publication 2013

Pages 31 p.

Author Parejo, S. R.;Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Caraga region is one of the many areas in the Philippines that are highly vulnerable to the adverse effects brought about by Climate Change because it is located along the Pacific seaboard. No wonder that Caraga Region is one of the most impoverished regions in the country. Hence, it ranked 4th among regions with high poverty incidence of families in 1997 and 2000. In Mindanao, Caraga has the 3rd highest poverty incidence. Malnutrition rates were also high at 49.25%, of which 34.05% were classif ied as mildly underweight, 11.66% as moderately underweight, 1.43% as severely underweight and 3.60% as overweight. Much like Bicol region, there are provinces in Caraga that are often visited by typhoons, droughts, flooding and saline intrusion. With these, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has requested the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to include Caraga in its Climate Change Adaptation Project that was implemented in Bicol. Thus, the Assessments of Climate Change Impacts and Mappin g of Vulnerability to Food Insecurity under Climate Change to Strengthen Household Food Security with Livelihoods’ Adaptation Approaches (AMICAF): STEP 3 Project was established in Surigao del Norte. Preliminary activities were done in October 2012, through a joint collaboration of AMICAF, DA-Caraga, PhilRiceAgusan and the LGUs in the selected project sites.The target sites were based on the three major agroecosystems with abiotic-related problems: saline-prone, drought-prone and submergence or flood-prone. The saline-prone and drought-prone sites were located in the three adjacent municipalities of Bacuag, Gigaquit, and Claver. The flood-prone site was located in the municipality of Mainit, which is right beside Mainit Lake, the largest lake in Caraga region.