The Philippine’s National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) comprehensively addresses climate change challenges. It is a comprehensive plan that provides critical actions that: 1) enhances adaptive capacity and resilience of communities and natural ecosystems to climate change; 2) adopts the total economic valuation of natural resources while ensuring biodiversity conservation; 3) recognizes the competitive advantages of putting a value on the direct use, indirect use, option to use and non-use of environment and natural resources, as a short to long-term sustainable development goal. It has the primary goal of increasing natural ecosystems’ resilience to climate change to promote a climate risk-resilient Philippines.

This project is related to projects such as MODECERA (Monitoring and Detection of Ecosystems Changes for Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation in the Philippines), AMIA (Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture), and SARAI (Smart Approaches to Reinvigorate Agriculture as an Industry). These projects all address the impacts of climate change. Specifically, MODECERA focuses on developing long-term monitoring of ecosystems that could aim in modeling, and eventually, ecosystem/environmental management.

This Philippines-based project study will deal with traditional, modern and integrated/hybrid bioproduction systems and how they interact with various externalities to deliver the various ecosystem services. These bioproduction systems will be analyzed based on practices, inputs and outputs. Externalities to the bioproduction systems will include changes in climate, land use, policy and sociodemographic conditions. These various bioproduction systems will be subjected to modelling to predict future resilience and sustainability.