Webinar | Vulnerability and Risk Frameworks: Looking Into VIA Assessment Frameworks, Tools and Indices
By Dr. Rosa T. Perez Senior

Webinar | Vulnerability Assessment in the Philippines: Operationalization of the Concept and Selected Examples
Dr. Charlotte Kendra Gotangco

This webinar was organized by the National Climate Change Commission (NCCC), sponsored by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and webcasted at DENR Climate Change Office and SEARCA.

Watch the presentation here. 

ADSS | Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management as Applied to Agriculture
By Ms. Jessica Dator-Bercilla

This presentation on "Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management as Appied to Agriculture" is part of SEARCA's Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS) held on 22 January 2013 at Drilon Hall, SEARCA. 

Watch her presentation here.

ADSS Special Graduate Seminar | Willingness to Pay for a Planned Adaptation Program to Climate Change of Farmers in Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines: Evidence from a contingent valuation survey
By Gay D. Defiesta

Educational attainment, farm area, farm income , farm experience, knowledge about climate change, and access to credit influence Dumangas farmers' willingness to pay for a planned adaptation program to climate change. SEARCA PhD scholar and Assistant Professor Gay D. Defiesta of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines-Visayas shared these, as part of her dissertation during SEARCA’s Special Graduate Seminar Series held on 24 April 2012.

Due to its geographical location and level of economic development, the Philippines faces the challenges of climate change, thus, making adaptation programs necessary. The country’s agriculture sector, particularly its poor farmers, will suffer most from climate change unless measures to mitigate its effects are done. Coastal towns like Dumangas in Iloilo are more vulnerable to these effects. Given this scenario, Defiesta investigated if farmers are willing to pay to reduce their vulnerability, and if so, how much do they value a planned adaptation program to climate change that will specifically address their needs.

Read more: Dumangas farmers willing to pay for planned adaptation program to climate change

ADSS Special Seminar | Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Water Balance
By Dr. Edwin A. Combalicer

More hydrologic events such as rainfall and high evaporation rates are expected to occur in and around Mount Makiling Forest Watershed. This may leave profound impacts on the agricultural development, livelihood, and economic and biodiversity sustainability of the ecosystem.

This is according to Dr. Edwin A. Combalicer of the University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Forestry and Natural Resources in his presentation on Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Water Balance as part of SEARCA’s Agricultural and Development Seminar Series.

Sustainability of forest watersheds is necessary to attain ecological balance and good quality source of water to sustain both human life and wildlife. The study conducted by Dr. Combalicer revealed that the growing effects of climate change profoundly affect the water balance of Mount Makiling Forest Watershed, leaving deep impacts on its hydrologic processes. These impacts were evaluated by downscalinglarge scale climate information through the use of the Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM).

Read more: Climate change to leave profound impact on forest water balance