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ACIAR's Research Priorities and Active Projects in the Philippines (2008-09)

Subprogram 1: Increasing the market competitiveness of Philippines agricultural products

1A: Meeting market specifications for horticultural products

• Identification of farmer incentives for adoption of horticultural postharvest systems improvements
• Development and implementation of new quality management and food safety standards and systems
• Economic analysis of marketing chains and channels for perishables
• Building of supply chains: improvement in alliances between suppliers, processors, institutional buyers and marketers
• Nutrient and pesticide management to save costs and reduce residues

1B: Higher returns from horticulture products

• Adoption of protected cropping technologies and reduction of inputs
• Disease management: bacterial wilt and other soil-borne diseases in solanaceous and crucifer crops; efficient production systems for seed potato
• Pest management: systems for diamondback moth management in brassicas
• Germplasm collection and evaluation and development of cultural packages and native vegetables
• Improvement in postharvest handling: shelf-life extension, product development, packaging, quality and sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPSS) for markets for salad and semi-temperate vegetables
• Tropical fruit for export and premium domestic markets
• Selection and clonal propagation of new quality mango germplasm
• Control of major pests and diseases of mango
• Improvement in postharvest handling: cultural practices, shelf life extension, product development, packaging, quality and SPSS for markets for jackfruit, mango and new tropical fruit crops
• Control of major pests and diseases in durian and jackfruit

1C: Competitive and sustainable aquaculture production

• Adoption of mariculture-based strategies to provide livelihoods and enhance locally managed fisheries with an initial emphasis on sea cucumbers
• Assessment of the impacts of mariculture on community livelihoods of small fishers
• Review of opportunities and constraints in the supply chain for key aquaculture products, particularly grouper and mud crab
• Management of viral nervous necrosis of marine finfish
• Integrated use and management of on-farm ponds and small water impoundments for freshwater fish production
• Application in the Philippines of results from ACIAR aquaculture projects in other countries

Subprogram 2: Farmer-based land and water resource management for profitable and sustainable agriculture

• Catchment-scale adaptation of landcare-type activities for integrated soil and water conservation, agricultural production and enhanced market focus
• Water resource management (including groundwater and water harvesting) for high-value vegetable and fruit crops
• Implementation of valuation and financing mechanisms for environmental services in watersheds for soil and water conservation
• Integrated nutrient management for low-input farming systems
• Utilisation of urban waste and treated wastewater for peri-urban agriculture
• Market identification and use of industrial trees and fast-growing agroforestry species
• Introduction of propagation systems for indigenous trees for soil and water conservation

Subprogram 3: Addressing regulatory, policy and technical constraints to the adoption of research outputs

• Development of simple replicable financial/business models for agribusiness development of small farms
• Application of better extension models for packaging earlier research results (e.g. on livestock production and health, horticulture, aquaculture and agroforestry)
• Identification and addressing of local and national policy constraints to adoption of research, including:
  • land use, land tenure, taxation and transportation policies
  • sanitary and phytosanitary standards
  • intellectual property rights
• Assessment of policy constraints to agroforestry development on small farms Assessment of policy constraints to the control and management of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing

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