The overall objective of the project is to formulate the Food Production Allocation Strategy that specifically identifies an action plan with measures and policy recommendations towards achieving food security. This study will primarily provide DA the data and analysis on major food consumption patterns of Filipinos, and the country’s current production of major commodities; and shall be relevant to DA in its formulation of plans and programs responsive to the needs of the people particularly in determining the volume of food needed in the future to support the growing population.

The project seeks to help increase the resilience of the agriculture sector against multiple threats by allowing key actors in the Department of Agriculture to make more effective and timely decisions through comprehensive and near real-time access to crop production and risk and damage assessment information and tools.

this project would help in the development and implementation of interventions that would considerably address the lack of systematic data on available aquaculture areas for production that hamper planners and decision makers from developing intuitive financial and investment mechanisms to boost the sector’s growth and promote sustainable management practices. Specifically, it would develop and pilot an online mapping and registration system for aquaculture resources, and develop business plans and regulations for the selected pilot areas. It is envisioned that the information that would be consolidated in the system will help identify and inform the development, implementation and advocacy of practices that are more appropriate for smallholder aquaculture farmers and small to medium industries. It would also help develop more appropriate and effective business plans and regulations that would take advantage physical and socio-economic suitability of aquaculture production areas.

The project expects to contribute to the development of agriculture and agribusiness in the priority provinces in Mindanao as well as its surrounding areas as a way to reduce poverty and ultimately result in inclusive growth. Through the project that focuses on increasing productivity and integration of the beneficiaries in the value chain, jobs will be created which would provide an opportunity for its stakeholders to achieve better income levels. Increased agricultural activities to be triggered by the project can translate to increased job opportunities. Furthermore, as the project will go beyond the typical farm-based activities and cover the whole value chain, opportunities for better income levels can be harnessed. Additionally, the project is expected to generate better quality jobs, which can contribute to the increase in incomes in a more sustainable manner. Similarly, investing on interventions that would spur agricultural growth will also help in enhancing the potential of the rural areas by fully integrating smallholder farmers and fishers into the value chain to maximize market opportunities, and thus promoting more inclusive growth.

The government recently launched its new economic development framework, which is embodied in the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022. To ensure alignment with the government?s policies and priorities, FAOPH will be formulating a new Country Programming Framework (CPF) 2018-2024. The CPF will be based on situational analysis of the agriculture and fisheries (A&F), environment and natural resources (ENR) sectors, including recent developments related to the peace process in the country and emergency response as it applies to the A&F and the ENR sectors. The framework will also include the analysis of the gender dimension of the agriculture and rural development sectors. Specifically, it will explore existing gender relations and inequalities in various subsectors of agriculture, their causes and their impact on the economic and social development of rural areas and on food security and nutrition. The CPF will also incorporate the relevant Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Philippines. The formulation of the new CPF will also build on past and ongoing FAO projects and will involve consultative dialogue with key stakeholders on strategic opportunities for future FAO activities in the country.

The project seeks to improve the overall capacity of the government in providing good land governance to address the going concerns related to land management. Specifically, the following issues were identified: 1. Issues in land management due to idle lands, complex processes, weak land utilization monitoring, and poor data management, land conflicts due to poor planning and lack of transparency 2. Lack of oversight agency to monitor the compliance of LGUs and fisherfolks in the coastal areas 3. Ambiguity in the linkage(s) between climate change and land tenure rights.

Within the context of Regional Rice Initiative supported activities in the Philippines during 2014-15 (Phase II), FFS-S&G SIRP were implemented in targeted provinces funded by the Philippine Agri Pinoy National Rice Programme. The FFS-S&G SIRP was aimed at increasing rice productivity by 10 percent, increasing cost efficiencies by reducing production costs by 15 percent and increasing farm incomes by 15 percent in line with the major objectives of the Rice Initiative in the country to gather evidences of increasing production efficiencies by promoting integrated sustainable production approaches, rather than rice alone, rice based production system. Preliminary economic data from the pilot Farmer Field Schools in Save & Grow showed better positive results on average yield, total cost, net income from rice, additional income and total farm income over farmers? traditional practice. The results were attributed to the application of good agricultural practices, cost-reducing technologies and integrated rice-livestock/fishery and multi-cropping systems (including Trees Outside Forests). However, the results still have to be consolidated and the lessons learned from the pilot FFS-S&G need to be reviewed and updated for further improvement of FFS curriculum, including continued identification of appropriate Save and Grow innovations and to provide evidence for continued investments and for broadening government policy support for Save and Grow- rice-SIRP and rice based production system interventions through FFS Save and Grow.

Emergency assistance in restoring agriculture livelihoods in conflict communities

The overall project objective is to contribute to the attainment of sustainable peace and development in North Cotabato, by providing support to the rehabilitation and restoration of agriculture and fisheries-based livelihoods.

The Project's overall objective is "Increase farmers' productivity and incomes and sustainable livelihoods through the use of Climate Resilient Agri-Fisheries strategies",

To mainstream the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity for ensuring food security, improved livelihoods and resilient ecosystem in three selected key biodiversity conservation areas.

The project aims at reviewing national policy framework and fostering enabling policy environment for production diversification and dietary diversity, especially tapping the potential of highly nutritious and climate-sensitive underutilized crops to address malnutrition in selected countries.

The project will develop quality knowledge products on practically proven innovative aquaculture farming practices for sharing among the regional initiative focus countries and will conduct regional/national workshops and farm demonstration for building human capacity of the participating countries in adopting selected aquaculture farming practices and the project will also seek to develop specific regional and national strategy to promote the innovative aquaculture farming practices, which will contribute significantly to sustainable development of aquaculture for blue economic growth in the region.

This project will support governments in six focus countries to develop national CSA programmes (and/or integrate CSA priorities into existing plans and programmes), linking CSA investments to NDCs and global climate finance mechanisms, based on regional best practice and knowledge.

Strengthening regional resilience in the management of the Yellow-Spined Bamboo Locust (YSBL) in Lao PDR and Viet Nam

This TCP-F will work with countries and regional partners to develop a regional programme to address the developing GEF 7 Impact Programme (IP) on Landscape Restoration. The GEF-7 programme is expected to provide significant support through an integrated, multi-focal area Landscape Restoration IP to help countries make real progress in restoring degraded land by providing significant levels of incremental funding to on-the-ground activities addressing critical geographic and thematic gaps, technical capacities and enabling environment, including informed policy, legal and regulatory frameworks for improved governance, tenure and investment decision making.

The proposed TCP-F will support GCF project development in China and Viet Nam, promoting FAO proven approaches in sustainable forest and natural resource management to reduce carbon emissions. It will support China in further identification and finalization of GCF project concept note(s) while in Viet Nam it will support the baseline and feasibility studies, social-environmental assessment and the putting together GCF Full Proposal.

The proposed TCP-F will support GCF project development in Bangladesh and Pakistan, promoting CSA technologies and good practices to address climate change. It will support Bangladesh to undertake pre-feasibility assessment and development of the project CN. In Pakistan, it will complement other resources to support a number of important GCF required assessments (environmental and social, gender, financial fiduciary and procurement plan) and develop the GCF format Funding Proposal.

The proposed TCP-F will support GCF project development in Pakistan and the Philippines, promoting FAO?s Climate Smart Agriculture approach. Specifically it will support CSA options feasibility assessment in Pakistan and required safeguard assessments in both Pakistan and the Philippines for the complete GCF Full Proposals in both countries.

The proposed TCP-F will support GCF project development in Cambodia, Myanmar and Viet Nam, utilizing FAO proven tools and expertise in building climate resilience of food and agriculture systems through integrated landscape management and ecosystem-based approaches. It will support Cambodia and Myanmar in finalizing PPFA to secure GCF funding for Full Proposal preparation while advancing the FP preparation. In Viet Nam, TCP-F will complement resources from FAO HQs, Country Office and other sources to ensure proper consultations during the FP preparation.

This TCP-F will develop and strengthen country and regional technical and institutional capacities to meet ETF requirements, tracking and progress defining priority CCA/CCM actions achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors.

The objective of this proposal is to support the development of a "Food Systems" Impact Programme (FIP) idea under GEF-7 that positions the management of natural resources - land, soil, water, vegetation and genetic resources - as a priority in the transformation of the agriculture sector for food security and nutrition in Asia. The FIP will support 3 countries in improving soil, water and land management through agro-ecological practices and enhance sustainable agricultural production with the aim of supporting smallholders through increased incomes and food security.

Building Statistical Capacity for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals related to Food Security.

This TCP-F will work with countries and regional partners to develop two independent regional projects for submission to GEF (IW, BD and CC) in the form of PIFs. These will respectively assist i) Gulf of Thailand countries and ii) Lower Mekong Basin countries in meeting the environmental, social, economic and governance challenges they face in fisheries sectors and Gulf of Thailand and LMB sub-regions. The expected combined value of potential GEF projects is conservatively estimated to be 13 Million USD related to grant and 60 MUSD including co-financing.

The proposed regional TCP is also a planned regional activity to contribute to the Regional Initiative on Sustainable Intensification of Aquaculture for Blue Growth in Asia and the Pacific.

Counterparts have the knowledge and skills to restore degraded forestlands in the project countries using landscape approach through the adoption of FLR in national forest restoration strategies

This project will address those challenges by adopting a holistic approach that focuses on working with governments to not only develop their national e-Agriculture Strategies but also to support them in implementing some of the high priority ICT for Agriculture interventions already identified in the strategy that hold the most promising potential impact for improved agriculture outcomes in areas such as researcher-farmer-extension agricultural communication, inclusive financial services, market prices access, etc.

To strengtheing livestock sector policy analysis, design and negotiation capacity in ASEAN member countries representing a range of livestock production systems.

Effective development of regional food and nutrition security frameworks and their delivery mechanisms through a strengthened SAARC

The proposed project will adopt an integrated, multistakeholder and holistic ?plot to pot? food production system that will combine the production of a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits and small scale livestock such as chickens, ducks and aquaculture toward a more self-reliant provision of school meals. School gardens and nutrition education will be integrated into the school curricula so it becomes an integral part of the teaching and learning process. School-community links to promote shared responsibility between government and communities will be strengthened. Home gardens will help improving the diets of households and nutrition education will contribute to family nutrition.

A regional project for Small-Scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Value Chains through Participatory Guarantee Systems would aim at assisting selected countries where local organic markets are developing and where a PGS would allow more small farmers to benefit from these emerging high value markets.

To strengthen capacity of ASEAN Member States to design, and implement risk-informed and shock responsive social protection system in order to (i) reduce vulnerabilities of at-risk populations, (ii) strengthen their capacity to respond to and recover from shocks and thus (iii) enhance resilience in order to mitigate the effects of and improve preparedness for further shocks.

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Establish the framework and a roadmap for the South Asia Disease Surveillance Network involving eight South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) by bringing the identified experts for a consultative meeting and discussion.

The main objective of the project is to strengthen phytosanitary capacity of NPPOs and technical supporting organizations/entities (e.g. universities) of the recipient countries. This will be achieved through providing technical and operation manuals, organizing field and laboratory trainings and workshops and developing recommendations to be used by the respective NPPOs, in implementation of phytosanitary activities for international movement of seeds. In addition, the promotion of changes in the consciousness of general public and related private sectors through this project will contribute to preventing introduction and spread of pests associated with the international movement of seeds. Also, the project achievements and findings can be useful reference for the member consultations on the draft ISPM on seeds, which has been elaborated in the IPPC framework, and will contribute to the harmonization of relevant phytosanitary measures.

To promote a more prudent antimicrobial usage within the Asian livestock production industry leading to a reduction in antimicrobial resistance.

The project aims at reducing the spread of H5N1 in poultry in the country, thus minimizing the risk of contagion to other mammals and humans and the possibility of a pandemic.

Cooperation in Plant Protection by member countries in the Region

Cooperation in Plant Protection by member countries in the Region

Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia

To develop and agree a SAP based on a TDA, for the ISLME leading to reduced stress on the marine resources and ecosystem through improved understanding of LME processes and the development of sustainable ecosystem-based management actions, which also promote increased resilience to climate variability and change.

The overall goal of the project is to protect the health of the consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade within ASEAN countries as well as with other countries including Japan. The project also aims to establish a stronger relationship between ASEAN countries and the donor, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.

The project will contribute to the food and livelihood security of smallholders, by integrating them into agricultural value chains (dairy, fishery and vegetable) that link them to new market opportunities.

To support Pacific SIDS in meeting their obligations to implement and effectively enforce global, regional and sub-regional arrangements for the conservation and management of transboundary oceanic fisheries thereby increasing sustainable benefits derived from these fisheries.

The Objective of the project is to reduce priority unintentionally produced POPs (uPOPs) emissions arising from poor waste management practices, thus meeting parties? Convention obligations to improve the management of chemicals in countries in the Pacific region, through assistance in the development and implementation of uPOPs strategies and guidelines, vocational training of waste workers, training of PIC staff in improved chemicals management, and the development of a regional waste oil export and reuse system.

The project objective is to strengthen the capacity within SAARC to support regional coordination for the control of TADs. This will be achieved through strengthening the Regional Support Unit, Regional Epidemiology Centre and Regional Diagnostic Laboratories. These structures will enable the SAARC member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) to address common issues related to TADs that are predominantly spread by informal cross-border value chains in livestock products.

To stimulate local innovation using SRI/FFS approaches to sustainably improve agricultural productivity and food security in the context of climate change adaptation, and to enhance research capacities to continue to support this development

The Asian Regional Componente directly addresses the three pillars forming the foundation of the Global Strategy: 1. Establishing a minimum set of core data that countries will disseminate on a regular basis to meet current and emerging demands; 2. Integrating agriculture into national statistical systems in order to meet the requirements of policy makers and other data users that statistical information be linked across the economic, social, and environmental domains ; 3. Fostering the sustainability of the agricultural statistical systems through governance and statistical capacity building.

To conserve biodiversity in Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue by expanding and consolidating their networks of PAs, building capacity for conservation management and sustainable use of biodiversity and reducing forest and land degradation.

To protect Aquatic resources and stocks, to maintain and enhance biodiversity in the Coral Triangle/South China Sea (SCS) region through application of strategies and technologies for fisheries bycatch management.

To improve health and reduce environmental risk through capacity building for the proper management, and sustainable use, of agricultural and industrial chemicals. Its geographical focus is on the Greater Mekong Subregion.

The project will provide additional staff time in carrying out activities relating to activities in the implementation of the World Food Summit commitments, the Plan of Action and its Rome Declaration which explicitly made references to the importance of polices.