The Sustainable Land Resource Management Approach (SLRMA) is a community-based project focused on the management of upland areas, planted to corn or cassava, for optimum and sustained agricultural production while restoring ecological balance for the benefit of the majority of the population. The project was implemented in six pilot municipalities/cities of:
- Alfonso Lista, Ifugao
- Ilagan City, Isabela
- Sagñay, Camarines Sur
- Tapaz, Capiz
- Dapitan Zamboanga del Norte
The project generally aims to ensure that the integrity of upland/hilly land biophysical and socio-economic process is maintained.
Specifically, it aims to
- Assess soil health status of upland and hilly land areas primarily used for cultivation
- Develop and promote a science-based approach that will enhance the full potential of upland and hilly land areas for agri-environmental development
- Assess adoption of soil and water technologies, its benefits to farmers and environmental impact
Activities
- Adoption of SLM practices through site establishment (SLRMA model farm)
- Conduct of capacity building/farmers training
- Conduct of Farmers Field Day
- Data gathering
- Monitoring of existing sites
Impact
Securing the availability of productive and healthy soil resources through sustainable land management resulting in increase in farmer’s yield/income/livelihood
- promotion/adoption of appropriate soil conservation measures
- increase awareness of land users on soil conservation
- widen the source of income through crop diversification
- conservation of soil resources
- soil conservation as climate change adaptation & mitigation strategy
Beneficiaries
Farmers association/ farmers group with corn/cassava/cultivated sloping areas
Status of implementation?
2019-2023 (implementation phase)- completed
2024 (monitoring phase)- ongoing
