Philippines

Our impact

Context

In the Philippines, the coffee sector faces declining production, high climate vulnerability, and limited structuring of producer organizations. Aging plantations, a lack of technical expertise, and competition from less sustainable alternative crops weaken the livelihoods of rural families—most of them Indigenous—and limit women’s participation in governance. In the target areas (the Cordillera and Nueva Vizcaya), climate adaptation, biodiversity, and recognition of Indigenous knowledge are critical to the future of the value chain.

Objectives and expected results

  • Strengthen climate change adaptation for Indigenous women coffee producers and their families in the Cordillera and Nueva Vizcaya.
  • Structure the coffee value chain around clusters to improve competitiveness, quality, processing, and market access.
  • Increase adoption of nature-based solutions and climate-smart agricultural practices (agroforestry, NBCFS) to improve yields and resilience.
  • Strengthen technical and organizational capacities through training, demonstration plots, nursery support, and improved coffee processing equipment.
  • Promote inclusive co-operative governance by increasing Indigenous women’s participation and leadership in decision-making.
  • Strengthen financial risk management, including financial education and improved access to agricultural insurance and tailored services.
  • Integrate gender equality and reduce women’s unpaid care and domestic workload (collective services, women’s leadership, promotion of positive masculinities).
  • Consolidate the environmental strategy: biodiversity conservation, innovative payment for environmental services mechanisms, traceability and certification to access higher value markets.
  • Align interventions with national and international policies on sustainable development, gender equality, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Sectors of activity

  • Agricultural value chain: coffee (production, processing, marketing)
  • Sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, and climate-smart practices (nature-based solutions)
  • Climate change adaptation and resilience
  • Biodiversity conservation and payment for environmental services mechanisms
  • Co-operative development and structuring through clusters (governance, management, performance)
  • Market access, traceability, certification, and commercial negotiation
  • Financial inclusion, risk management, and agricultural insurance
  • Gender equality, women’s leadership, positive masculinities
  • Indigenous Peoples’ rights, knowledge valorization, and inclusive governance
  • Institutional strengthening and public-sector partnerships

Results and impacts

In summary

Agsama Kape addresses the structural challenges of the coffee value chain by combining climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, and economic structuring through clusters. Activities include demonstration plots, training programs, strengthened nurseries, upgraded processing equipment, and support for inclusive co-operative governance. These interventions help increase yields, diversify incomes, access higher value markets, and strengthen resilience to climate shocks. They also reinforce Indigenous women’s participation across the value chain while integrating financial risk management, gender equality, and the valorization of Indigenous knowledge.

Projects in the Philippines

Agsama Kape

With the Agsama Kape project, Socodevi strengthens the climate and economic resilience of Indigenous women coffee producers in the mountainous regions of northern Philippines. The project relies on climate-smart, nature-based coffee production practices, stronger co-operative governance, and increased participation of women in decision-making along the value chain. By supporting local co-operatives through training, knowledge sharing, […]
  • Funded by:
    Global Affairs Canada
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Partners

Funders

  • Global Affairs Canada
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Philippines Office
15th Floor, KMC, North Tower 1, EDSA cor. North Avenue,
SM North, Quezon City, 1105, Philippines
(+63) 917 164 8381

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