Building Smallholder Resilience through Climate Smart Agriculture: A Focus on Bagamanoc, Catanduanes

Smallholder farmers in Bagamanoc depend on rain-fed crops that are increasingly exposed to typhoons, erratic rainfall, and soil loss, and repeated harvest failures push families to leave the land. This project will strengthen their resilience by introducing and scaling climate-smart agriculture practices, including cover cropping, agroforestry, multi-cropping, and no-till farming. Farmers will receive hands-on training, inputs, and follow-up support to adapt these methods to local conditions, with demonstration plots serving as learning sites for neighbouring communities. By stabilising yields and incomes under a changing climate, the project aims to reduce the pressure on farming households to migrate and to keep agricultural livelihoods viable in place.