Dollentas, R. T. (2017). Mainstreaming climate-smart farming technologies and techniques to flood risk management in rice farms (Unpublished master's thesis). Public Management Development Program, Development Academy of the Philippines.

Public Management Development Program. Middle Managers Class. Thesis (MMC)--Development Academy of the Philippines.

Flooding is one of the most prevalent natural disaster affecting rice production, especially now that there is exacerbating on climate change. PhilRice, being an agency mandated to improve rice production, has also the responsibility to help reduce the effect of natural disaster to rice farming through its research and development activities. Thus, the re-entry project hopes to improve the resiliency of rice farmers to flooding through the integration of existing mechanism and programs of various entities identified appropriate to the community. To achieve this, three component activities were planned: flood risk assessment (FRA), the creation of the Plan of Action (POA) for flood risk management (FRM) and the risk task force and the pilot testing of the POA. The project site was in Nabua, Camarines Sur, particularly Brgy. Sta. Barbara, which has an approximate total rice area of 130 hectares and more than 300 farmers affected by frequent flooding. Results of the FRA revealed that rice farming in Brgy. Sta. Barbara is highly risky because of the likelihood of flooding to occur due to its geographical location. Risks in rice farming due to flooding in aggravated by the fact that the farmers have low financial capacity/ farm capital resources , low adaptation of modern and appropriate technologies, weak farm organizations, and are mostly "risk neutral" farmers who are less motivated to innovate to reduce the risks they face. Given the results of the FRA, a matrix was developed identifying the scenarios that make rice farming risky, the factors that contribute to risks, the assessment of risks, and risk treatment, as well as the agencies helpful in treating the risks. Identified agencies were then tapped to constitute the "Rice Task Force (RTF)" as an implementing unit and ensure the delivery of government support services to the affected community as determined in the FRA. The RTF then developed the POA which contains interventions, mechanisms, and programs from various agencies that were identified appropriate to the community based on the results of the FRA. Specifically, the POA integrates the climate-smart farming technologies and techniques that were developed by PhilRice for promotion and adoption by the community. The POA and the RTF were empowered by the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The outputs of the project, however, needs further reviews from the experts and concerned agencies prior to its implementation on the ground. Pilot testing of the POA was already lined up to the PhilRice Bicol R and D agenda for 2018. Successful testing of the POA will qualify to expand its implementation in other rice farming areas facing the problems. It will also then be a good basis to present and propose the project to other public and private agencies to seek more support to better achieve the purpose.