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Community Participation in the Local Rice Security Programs in Cailaco and Maliana
In the case of the rice security programmes, households and farmer groups are involved in the various phases of the programs such as project identification, planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. Farmer groups have a significant contribution in the implementation of rice safety program in Cailaco and Maliana sub-district, Timor-Leste.
Efficiency and Effectiveness of the
The performance of the Rice Crop Insurance Program (RCIP) of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) was evaluated to explain the low number of insured farmers and to suggest ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the program. Documents were reviewed and primary data were collected through survey of participating rice farmers and key informant interview of officers and staff of PCIC Region 4 and Multipurpose Employees Cooperative Region IV of the National Irrigation Administration (NEMCO).
Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation’s Rice Crop Insurance Program
The results of the study revealed gaps in enrollment in the program, the duration of filing the application for coverage, the number of days in the team of adjusters' responses, damage estimates and delays in receiving compensation, which resulted in a low efficiency score for the program. To increase its effectiveness and efficiency, this study recommends that the PCIC should: a) intensify the technical capacity building training for the team of adjustments; b) deputies of officials and staff of the municipal agricultural office as members of the adjustment team;
The Case of Laguna Province, Philippines
The relationship between the indicators used and overall effectiveness of the program was identified by means of scatter diagrams. The majority of farmers experienced gaps in program enrollment (67%), filing processes (70%), response from the adjuster team (83%) and the transfer of indemnity payments (73%).
Policy and Institutional Challenges in Climate Information Services
Provisioning in Philippine Agriculture
The project was implemented in the Philippines (together with the Philippine Department of Agriculture [DA]) and in Peru (together with the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation). This paper is an analysis of the policy and institutional challenges in the CIS provision in Philippine agriculture. The experts say. answers covered the following: 1) standards in the establishment and maintenance of the CIS equipment;.
Political support and local governance were essential in disseminating climate information to different end users. This paper is one of the policy outputs of the project on "Climate Information Services (CIS) - Provision in the agricultural sector". Research report for the "Climate Information Services (CIS) - Provision in the agricultural sector." Department of Agriculture, Quezon City, Philippines.
Initiatives for Local Initiatives for Locally Adapted Climate Information Services in Climate Information Services in the Philippines.
TQM/ISO 9001 Implementation in Northern and Central Luzon
The checklist of the 20 ISO 9001 elements (Table 4) was used as a guide in constructing the questionnaire. Preparation and use of forms and QMS manual (steps 3 and 4) corresponded to UN ISO 9001 application steps. Through on-site observations, this study found that the TQM/ISO 9001 program implementation by NEUST's Extension Services Department.
Respondents in the study identified lack of commitment and inability to adapt to change as factors that negatively impacted their TQM/ISO 9001 implementation. Some faculty and staff are neither receptive nor committed to implementing TQM/ISO 9001 in the consulting services department. They explained that the enormous amount of time and effort involved in implementing TQM/ISO 9001 can hinder the university's normal service functions.
A Study of Total Quality Management in the University of the Philippines Institute for Small Scale Industries.
Decentralization, the Internal Revenue Allotment, and Shared Growth
An Examination of Correlations
A significantly negative correlation between the levels of average income and poverty incidence. This correlation was
This implies that higher levels of average income were associated with significant reductions in the incidence of poverty.
There was a weak positive to no correlation between levels of poverty incidence and the Gini coefficient. Poverty incidence
There was no significant correlation between the IRA per capita and poverty incidence. The coefficient of correlation between
Overall, patterns 1 and 2 suggested that per capita income growth was more inclusive rather than shared. In theory, one way for this to happen is if income in the higher-income percentile grows faster than in the lower-income percentile. The next section discusses the above correlation results in relation to two criticisms of the IRA formula after presenting the definition of the current IRA formula.
The IRA is 40 percent of the national government's gross internal income in the third preceding fiscal year. 50 percent of the total amount allocated to their LGU type is allocated to each of their respective components in proportion to their population;. 25 percent of the total amount allocated to their LGU type is allocated to each of their respective components in proportion to their land area; And.
60 percent of the total amount allocated to the barangays shall be allocated to each barangay in proportion to its population; and 2.
In fact, causality 2 is compatible with a performance-based allocation of the IRA, where higher income per resident is rewarded with a higher IRA per inhabitant. Based on an inspection of the IRA formula, there are at least two possibilities where the positive correlation between income per capita and IRA per population may occur. An increase in population is associated with a decrease in both IRA per capita via the IRA formula and income per capita via the production function.
The arrowhead between population and per capita income indicates that population causes per capita income, under the assumption that population is an input to production. This follows from the accounting identity underlying the relationship between IRA per capita and population. Treating per capita income as a proxy for wages, a province with a higher per capita income encourages immigration.
The implicit causality between population and income in Possibility 2 is very similar to Causality 2, where higher income per capita causes a higher IRA per capita.
An increase in population was accompanied by an increase in IRA allocations based on the IRA formula. This conclusion is very remarkable considering that the IRA formula was not really intended to be performance based. This stems from the IRA formula itself, which is not directly related to the development efforts of the LGUs.
Benguet, on the other hand, seems more interested in adjusting the land area and population components of the IRA formula. Benguet also pointed to the issue of including the county's disputed areas in calculating the IRA. The critique of the IRA formula addressed in this study contributes to such a re-evaluation, but suffers from the application of inconsistent criteria.
Another recommendation is to use shared growth as criteria for judging the IRA and the larger program of decentralization.
Based on its qualitative definition, the IRA per province for a certain year “ t ” would be expressed by the following formula
Even with clear criteria applied, a re-evaluation of the IRA should also shed light on the causal relationships between the relevant variables, such as that between the IRA and the median income of counties. The author is indebted to the University of the Philippines Los Baños for the Basic Research Grant for conducting the research for this article. De Los Reyes of UPLB's College of Economics and Management; Alberto Javier Iniguez-Montiel of the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo for assisting the author in accessing the database of Kurita and Kurosaki (2011); and the author's research fellowship mentor, Professor Josefina T.
This proves the first part of Possibility 1, which states that IRA per capita will be negatively correlated with population by the IRA formula.
Assuming a standard Cobb-Douglas production function, which includes land and population as inputs to production, Output can be
Proof of Possibility 2
Information Related to Case Studies
Laguna municipalities, on the other hand, were consistent only two years out of four. If you had the chance, what kind of revisions would you like to see in the IRA formula? A Study of the Population Factor in Allocation and Use of Internal Revenue Allocation for Local Philippine Population Management.
HRM Reform in Decentralized Local Government: Empirical Perspectives on Recruitment and Selection in the Philippines and Thailand. A Study on the Improvement of the Internal Revenue Allocation (IRA) System in the Republic of the Philippines. Growth Dynamics, Poverty and Inequality: A Panel Analysis of Regional Data from Thailand and the Philippines.
Cooperating to Compete - Governance Implications of Stakeholder Agendas in Mount Pulag National Park, Philippines.
Improvement in Self-assessed Knowledge and Changes in Farming System Practices
Thus, this paper focuses on self-assessed knowledge improvement of CFS farmer trainees in Pamplona, Camarines Sur and in Milagros, Masbate, Philippines. The term palayamanan is made up of two simple words: "palay" - the Filipino term for rice at any stage before husking; and "yaman" - a term meaning wealth. It was the belief that agricultural information and extension services such as CFS are effective methods of improving knowledge and changing farmers' practices.
This indicates farmers' self-assessed knowledge gains from these topics after participating in CFS. There were delays in the onset of rains and have affected the farming activities of farmers. Despite the poor facilities in the area, farmers in Milagros greatly appreciated the agricultural extension services.
Bordon and Milagros, Masbate through the MAO Vicente C. de Jesus, Jr.; the two local academic institutions, namely the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture with study director Celerino B. Memorial State College of Agriculture and Technology with study director Dr.
Factors Associated with Farmers’
Adaptation Practices to Weather Variability in Rice-based Farming
Due to the importance of adaptive capacity and adaptation practices in dealing with climate variability, this study aimed to discuss sources of information on climate change adaptation practices; determine the extension support received; examine factors associated with farmers' adaptation practices; to analyze the association of adaptation practices with production and income of rice farmers; On the other hand, the chi-square test of independence was used to determine whether there is a relationship between two categorical variables such as crop production and family income and adaptation practices. The results showed that ecosystem type, total cultivated area, total cultivated area for rice and availability of credit were associated with some adaptation practices.
Measures of the relationship between adaptation practices and different socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics ADAPTATION PRACTICE LEVEL LEVEL. The result of the Spearman rank correlation analysis shows the association between the adaptation practices and different sources of information (Table 6). In general, sources of information such as AEA from INGOs, NGOs, group meetings, demonstration meetings, field days, FFS, trainings and print media were associated with the decision to adopt most adaptation practices.
Most (67%) of the respondents reported that they had never attended any training program provided by the public sector through DOA, while about a third (33%) reported that they had attended related training programs that were specific for the promotion of adaptation practices to weather variability. .
