Browsing by Author "Chiong-Javier, Elena"

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    Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watershed: Market and gender components of TMPEGS-Philippines
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (2008)
    The study is a four-year project launched in 2006 with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It will be undertaken until 2009 by a collaborative partnership between the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (lead institution) and multiple institutions particularly from the countries of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. The project belongs to an umbrella program called the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management-Collaborative Research Support P r o g ram (SANREM-CRSP)
  • Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watershed: Market and gender components of TMPEGS-Philippines
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (2008)
    The study is a four-year project launched in 2006 with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It will be undertaken until 2009 by a collaborative partnership between the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (lead institution) and multiple institutions particularly from the countries of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. The project belongs to an umbrella program called the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management-Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM-CRSP) managed by Virginia Tech.
  • DLSU-SDRC market and gender studies
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (Manila, Philippines: Social Development Research Center, De La Salle University, 2008)
    Summary: In Year 3, for development purposes it became practical to integrate the market and gender components although separate reporting (book type) on market and gender findings was still being undertaken. This was due to the fact that marketing was a gendered, i.e., women's, activity in Songco, the research site. Presentation and discussion of the integrated market and gender findings in several public fora was also done. The public discussions aided further data analysis and provided more ideas for writing the conclusion and recommendation of two books. Contact with women leaders of the only women's association in the village called 'Nagkahiusang Pundok sa Kababayen-an sa Songco (United Women's Group of Songco) Multi-Purpose Cooperative' or NPKS-MPC was established as the project's entry point for data validation and participatory development planning, as well as for local assistance in the new gender cross-cutting research thrust of SANREM.
  • Gender roles in production and marketing within the vegetable-agroforestry system in Bukidnon
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (2008)
    To promote sustainable land use in the Manupali Watershed in Bukidnon, upland farmers adopted the practice of agroforestry on mountain slopes. However, the introduction of commercially viable cash crops particularly vegetables has encouraged the integration of monoculture gardens in agroforestry and dotted the landscape with vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) systems. This paper discusses selected findings from an ongoing collaborative study on the VAF system that seeks, among other goals, to investigate how linkages between small upland farmers and the markets can serve as a major driver of sustainable agroforestry and eventually lead to the betterment of the farmers' socioeconomic situation. Initial findings reveal the importance of gender considerations in linking farmers to markets. In spite of growing modernization influences, the productive and market roles of women and men heads of farm households are distinct and gender-differentiated, vary by crop, but reflect a persistently traditional pattern. Although conjugal partners share in much of the activities relating to vegetable production, the men who still assume the lead role handle the heavier or more laborious tasks, while their wives are responsible for less strenuous work but figure prominently in marketing vegetable commodities either on-farm or at the marketplace. In growing trees, women may help in tree crop maintenance but timber marketing is a male domain. While gender roles should guide any endeavor to develop VAF enterprises, it is evident that vegetable-related enterprises will most likely impact positively and directly on upland farm women.
  • Holding Their Own: Smallholder Production, Marketing and Women Issues in Philippine Agroforestry
    Chiong-Javier, Elena; Duque-Piñon, Caroline; Mercado, Agustin R. Jr.; Reyes, Manuel R. (Manila, Philippines: Social Development Research Center-DLSU, 2012)
    Vermicomposting has been promoted in the Philippines as a technology to improve soil fertility, manage solid waste and safeguard health. This chapter describes the adoption of this technology by female farmers in the Philippines. It follows ten women farmers who adopt vermicomposting in order to identify successes and challenges in vermicomposting.
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    Local organizations in natural resources management in the uplands of southeast Asia
    Scherr, Sara J.; Amornsanguansin, Jintana; Chiong-Javier, Elena; Garrity, Dennis P.; Sunito, Satyawan; Saharudding (2001)
    Globally, a new paradigm is emerging of participatory management of upland watershed resources, but the architecture for successful, decentralized watershed governance is still in flux. In 2000, a collaborative study was begun to compare experiences of local organizations (LOs) for natural resource management (NRM) in the uplands of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand to help these organizations and supporting institutions to identify problems, opportunities and strategies for more effective action. The first phase of the study examined the policy context and institutional landscape for locally led NRM in the uplands, using secondary data, key informants and site visits in the three countries. Organizational histories and descriptions were collected for 21 diverse examples of LOs (each comprising from 1 to hundreds of community groups), 28 associations of LOs as well as several dozen NGOs and government programs supporting LOs working in upland NRM.
  • Market networking and trading: Transforming women's lives in Southern Philippines
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (2009)
    An informal group of rural women residing in a Southern Philippine watershed community demonstrates that networking and market participation are viable means for self-transformation amidst limited opportunities. Based on network analysis and qualitative interviews, this article delineates the women's marketing ties and experiences as vegetable biyahidors (traders) who hurdle constraints like capital shortage, losses incurred from grading and transporting perishables, increasing market competition, and lack of organized response to problem solving, through marketing practices established individually as well as collectively. The article underscores the necessity of institutional support through responsive market policies and programs to ensure the sustainability of the women's entrepreneurial endeavors.: Rural women, market network, trading, Philippines
  • Marketing, gender and sustainable vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) production
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (2009)
    Summary: The author presents the De La Salle University Social Development Research Center's involvement with TMPEGS. The research had two parts: 1) market value chain research to determine marketable products, market channels, marketing practices, constraints and opportunities, and 2) research on gender, especially women's participation in vegetable agroforestry production and marketing and networking. Methods used were literature/document review, participant observation, key informant interview, focus group, discussion and survey. The author emphasizes that marketing interventions must be made integral to VAF technology development to sustain the benefits of higher productivity in the socioeconomic lives of small farmers particularly women. Women's active participation particularly in vegetable marketing (training, education & knowledge-to-action endeavors) must be continuously explored and enhanced.
  • Progress report for SANREM gender cross-cutting research
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University, 2008)
    The study aims to describe and compare the gendered marketing networks of women farmers that link them to local markets for their products in three countries namely Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. It also seeks to determine how these networks influence the women's access to market information and their household bargaining status. The study employs a qualitative multi-method approach that combines review of related literature and project documents/ reports, in-depth interviews, participatory network mapping, and participatory focused discussions. The study's subjects are selected women farmers belonging to a formal women's association (Philippines and Vietnam) or informal women's group (Indonesia).
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    Progress report: Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watersheds
    Reyes, Manuel R. (2008)
    Work on vegetable-agroforestry compatibility is advancing rapidly with new findings that
  • Results of rapid stakeholder consultation in Lantapan, Bukidnon, Philippines
    Chiong-Javier, Elena; Catacutan, E. (Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University / Nairobi, Kenya: The World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), 2005)
    The rapid stakeholder consultation aimed to provide general information on the following areas:
  • Semi-annual report: Gender and network research "Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production" project
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University, 2009)
    Four critical activities were undertaken during the first six months of Year 4, as follows: (1) continued data gathering through Participatory Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Participatory Planning Workshop for the gendered market networks study, (2) three public disseminations of the findings from the market and gender studies, (3) initiation of a leveraged vermicomposting pilot project among selected women participants of the gender study, and (4) continued preparation of the proposed market and gender books.
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    Songco women biyahidors in Loverslane market: Self-Empowerment through micro vegetable entrepreneurship
    Chiong-Javier, Elena (Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University, 2007)
    Studies have shown that rural women in developing tropical countries continue to suffer from many gender-based inequalities and world trade policies that adversely affect their rights and control over natural and productive resources as well as their access to educational or training opportunities, agricultural services, technologies, and markets