PPSA Knowledge and Learning: Recent Episodes
PPSA Secretariat
Knowledge and Learning is one of the main workstreams of the Philippines Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (PPSA). As a multi-stakeholder partnership platform for agriculture, PPSA banks on the diverse knowledge and expertise of its members and partners in developing an initiative that brings new information, fresh insights, and perspectives to the general public. PPSA uses these outputs to identify strategies for collective action that may eventually help the smallholder farmers and the agriculture sector in general to achieve sustainability.
With support from Grow Asia, the PPP Coffee Taskforce of Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture in Viet Nam (PSAV), in collaboration with Coffee Working Groups of the Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture (PISAgro) and Philippines Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (PPSA), hosted a learning and sharing event that presented various partnership models in the coffee sector of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines that are working towards sustainable development.
In this webinar, our resource speakers discussed the programs, opportunities, and best practices doing climate-smart agriculture interventions for the communities.
Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00 | Erin Sweeney - 0:43 | Christy Owen - 13:03 | Q&A with Erin and Christy - 26:03 | Katrina Bayog-Mercado, Pilmico Foods Corporation - 40:33 | Anders Haagen, Lionheart Farms - 51:56 | Moderated Discussion - 1:06:41 | Open Forum - 1:29:58
In this webinar, we invited resource persons who presented different benchmarks and tools developed by their own organizations that companies or institutions can adopt to increase inclusivity in terms of gender in programs or initiatives. There were also breakout discussions sharing various gender-inclusive programs of companies and NGOs that presented challenges and best practices in their implementations.
Introduction - 00:00 | Erin Sweeney, Grow Asia - 07:38 | Catherine Sobrevega, MEDA - 24:29 | Dr. Marie Lisa Dacanay, ISEA - 51:34 | Q&A with the Presenters - 1:09:44
Breakout Sessions: Christine Jodloman, AGREA - 1:28:14 | Sharon Gonzales-Gulmatico, Morination Agricultural Products - 1:56:49 | Dr. Mary Ann P. Sayoc - 2:12:33
The second part of the Agriculture Goes Digital Learning Series shared the different technologies available in the market such as mobile platforms, satellite, and weather station that farmers, cooperatives, and the government can use to make informed decisions. Resource speakers were the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD), Komunidad, Mayani, Satsure, and Viamo.
In the first part of the Agriculture Goes Digital Learning Series co-organized with the League of Corporate Foundations (LCF), we invited organizations that initiated platforms and programs that directly help the smallholder farmers in accessing the market, sell their produce, receive payment, or be capacitated with trainings on using digital technologies as a start for a digitized agriculture in the Philippines. Resource speakers were the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute, Asian Confederation of Credit Unions-National Association of Training Centers for Cooperatives, BASF Agricultural Solutions Philippines, Cropital, Session Groceries and Smart Communications.
In this first of the many inter-country partnerships collaborations, we partnered with the Cambodia Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture to bring you how companies and industry players in both countries which include the Indo-China Agriculture Processing, The Coconut, CocoPallet International, Cargill Philippines, Pilipinas Shell Foundation, and Radical Kitchen operate along the coconut value chain, and how their programs and initiatives affect the communities they serve. We presented the current situation of the coconut industry in the Cambodia and the Philippines as well as the initiatives being done by stakeholders to help the smallholder farmers. A match-making activity culminated the session.
This webinar session discussed about the current situation of agri-financing in the country, and the proposed amendments of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in the Agri-Agra Law which mandates banks to allocate 25% of their loaning portfolio to the agriculture sector. The compliance is low, however, but this session invited financial institutions other than banks such as Ahon sa Hirap Inc., Foundation for Sustainable Society, Inc. and Agrabah Ventures to introduce their programs and services as continued efforts to make financing available and accessible to the farmers and fisherfolks. Land Bank of the Philippines was also invited who shared the available services for the sector.
In this webinar, the presentation centered on the government and private sector initiatives in working hand-in-hand to help smallholder farmers towards productivity, and at the same time, as to respond to the demand of the Philippine Coffee Industry Roadmap 2017-2022. There was also the sharing of best practices of the work of Vietnam as they developed a strong coffee industry in their country.
Different organizations particularly CSIRO, Grow Asia, and ISEA developed tools and benchmarks that may help agribusinesses and companies to achieve inclusivity and sustainability in their processes. These tools were shared and elaborated during the session, as well as the experience of a start-up platform as it tried to organize itself to become part of the value chain.
This webinar session on the Philippine fruit sector provides an overview of the current situation of the sector, both high-value and underutilized fruits. Private sector initiatives in sourcing directly to smallholder farmers were also shared and presented.
In this webinar, our resource speakers provided an overview of the current situation of the corn industry in the Philippines, and the initiatives of major private sector players in addressing the challenges facing the corn sector around climate change, fluctuating price dynamics and the threat of pests like the fall armyworm.
The discussion in this second part of the second webinar under the Vegetable Working Group revolved around good agricultural practices, innovations and initiatives by the private sector, and the experience of a farm cooperative in securing their GAP certification as they ensure delivery of quality produce to a large institutional buyer.
This webinar session on vegetable consumption takes on the initiatives of different organizations and sectors, particularly the government, private sector and social enterprise in helping increase consumption of vegetables in the Philippines, a country that has low per capita consumption on this produce.
This first webinar provides an overview of the current situation of the fisheries sector, initiatives, and key insights that may translate as a general consideration for the strategic direction of PPSA Fisheries Working Group.
The reemergence of avian influenza in the Philippines added to the ongoing health and economic challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government had taken steps to prevent the spread of the animal disease while the private sector, from large to small scale, have responded to secure their poultry and livestock as well as the communities where their businesses are located. These were some of the topics discussed during the last part of the Biosecurity Threats in Agriculture webinar series. Invited representatives from the Bureau of Animal Industry, Vitarich Corporation, and Batangas Free Range Chicken talked about the prevention and mitigation measures they have done against avian influenza.
The Philippines already posted an economic loss of around Php80 billion due to African Swine Fever in the first quarter of 2020. In this webinar, we invited the focal person of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture who talked about the current situation of ASF in the country and the interventions that the government has been doing to prevent its further spread. We also had two speakers from the private sector (Infarmco Management Corporation, and Philippine Agricultural Journalists) and shared their insights and recommendations in recovering from the impacts of ASF, both in business and in the swine industry as a whole.
In this webinar, we invited experts from the National Crop Protection Center (NCPC) of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños who talked about the more technical side of the management of fall armyworm and the recommendations of NCPC in controlling the pests, and East-West Seed who shared the Corn Learning Centers, the initiative of the company in helping the smallholder farmers to be capacitated in managing the FAW.
The fall armyworm poses threats to the Philippine agriculture sector that may potentially affect the livelihood of smallholder farmers and challenge food security in the country. In this first webinar on the Biosecurity Threats in Agriculture, we share what the ASEAN will be doing to mitigate the risks and prevent FAW to create greater damage to the agriculture sector in the region. We invited Alison Watson, the Program Manager of Grow Asia for ASEAN Action Plan on FAW Control, and Dr. Jedeliza Ferrater from East West Seed who talked about the plan, and some technical aspects surrounding FAW.
- Download the post-webinar report and the full transcript of Q&A discussion here: https://bit.ly/PPSAFAW1Report
- Download the presentation deck here: https://bit.ly/PPSAFAW1Deck