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| Title | Landcare and the issues of "scale" reflections from the Philippines | | Author | Delia Catacutan | | Year | 2003 | | Publisher | University of Queensland and World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office | | City of Publication | Brisbane, Queensland | | Pages | 14 | | Call Number | PP0122-05 | | Notes | Post Graduate Student (Preliminary results of PhD Research) Brisbane, University of Queensland |
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| This paper reflects upon the experiences of scaling-up Landcare in the Philippines.
Clearly, Landcare is impacting on farmers and their landscapes. Its metaphor illustrates a biological growth-model where few interested farmers grow into a movement of loosely knitted Landcare groups dedicated to improve their well-being and reverse land
degradation. Today, over 400 Landcare groups are operating within 15 municipalities in
Mindanao and Central Philippines. Continuous demand from the public and private
sectors indicates the potential spread of Landcare. However, this development is twined
with a growing concern on how the properties that gave Landcare its name are
maintained with site-specific adaptations and large-scale implementation.
The paper discusses three key questions: What does it take to scale-up Landcare? What
are the issues and concerns? What are the conditions to scale-up? It will also discuss
aspects of scaling-up design and management from an institutional perspective. It will
consider that much of a scaling-up dilemma arises when the demand-driven approach
changes to a supply-driven approach, with the risk of completely corrupting the whole
process. Nonetheless, with much acceptance of a combined approach, it will argue that
examination of issues at hand is important to effectively address, perhaps some
unintended effects of projectizing Landcare. |
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