A polycentric food sovereignty approach to climate resilience in the Philippines

Amber Heckelman; M. Jahi Chappell; Hannah Wittman

doi:10.1525/elementa.2020.00033

A polycentric food sovereignty approach to climate resilience in the Philippines

Amber Heckelman, M. Jahi Chappell, Hannah Wittman

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Enhancing climate resilience in agrarian communities requires improving the underlying socioecological conditions for farmers to engage in adaptation and mitigation strategies, alongside collaborative and redistributive community development to reduce vulnerabilities. To overcome barriers to climate resilience in the Philippines, a grassroots farmer-led organization comprised of resource-poor smallholders, scientists, and nongovernmental organizations have organized a polycentric network over the past 30 years to implement food sovereignty initiatives. We explore the extent to which the network's decentralized and farmer-led organizational structure; programming and services; promotion of diversified, organic, and agroecological farming systems; and political organizing and advocacy create broadly accessible and diverse pathways for resource-poor smallholders to build climate resilience. We find that the Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-Unlad ng Agrikultura's (Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development) polycentric governance approach directly addresses the root causes of vulnerability, particularly in working to reclaim farmer rights and control over resources, connecting local and global struggles, and revitalizing agrobiodiversity and place-based knowledge.

Original language	English
Article number	00033
Number of pages	21
Journal	Elementa
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00033
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2022

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Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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This work was funded by the Bullitt Environmental Fellowship, Mary and David Macaree Fellowship, UBC Public Scholars Initiative, Liu Scholars’ Bottom Billion Award, Walter Jeffrey Memorial Fellowship, and the Richard Clax-ton Palmer Scholarship.

Keywords

Food sovereignty
MASIPAG
Philippines
Polycentricity
Resilience

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Oceanography
Environmental Engineering
Ecology
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Geology
Atmospheric Science

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