Discussion points

•Province selection

•Abiotic and biotic stress information needed

•Food security issues relation to province selection

•Policy baseline & strategy e.g cross visits

•Soil quality improvement – how to measure it

•Is this about intensification or other crops

Relevant background and current status

The rainfed LMB region is inhabited by 60 million people, with one-third

living on less than one dollar per day. For example, in Northeast Thailand, the

largest rice area in the country with the greatest number of farms (2.7 million);

income per capita is less than 40% of the national average, and the incidence of

poverty is high, affecting 37% of the population (Matsuo, 2002). Although, Thailand

is a food surplus country at the macro level, however in terms of food accessibility at

the household level, it remains a problem, particularly in the rural remote areas of

Northeast and North region. A recent increase in food price and production cost has

inevitably impacted on Thailand’s rural poor. With a declining purchasing power,

these poor households face the risk of food insecurity. For overcoming these crises, it

is suggested that empowering small-scale famers capacity building based on

sufficiency economy concept is necessary for further development. This can work if it

is coupled with farm productivity enhancement through agricultural research and

development investment including on-farm resource management for enhancing the

resource-use efficiency under the broader umbrella of sustainable agriculture

development.

OBJECTIVE PURPOSE AND EXPECTED RESULTS

Objective

To contribute to enhance resilience of rainfed farmers of Northeast and North region of Thailand confronting climate change and food insecurity

Purpose

Strengthening and supporting the farmer’s

participatory action research work and policy

dialogue for smallholder agriculture

development under the broader umbrella of

sustainable agriculture development in the context of climate change

Results to be achieved Facilitation and inputs received from concerned ministry for policy dialogue

at Regional and National Planning and Inception Workshops, annual

national workshops, and final project workshop

Two provincial coordinators, one for each province responsible for

supervision of farmer’s participatory action research at province level (one

for each province) identified and recruited from concerned ministries at

provincial level

Six districts trainers, three from each province, identified from local

ministries to support and facilitate the training at district level.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

Deliberate and provide inputs for policy dialogue for

smallholder agriculture development under the broader

umbrella of sustainable agriculture development in the context

of climate change at workshops. Participate in Farmers’ field

Day.

Identify provincial coordinator and district trainer from

concerned ministries

Assist in participatory rural appraisal work

Provide coordination supervision to farmers’ participatory

action research

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assist in organizing LMU workshop in

collaboration with AIT

Support and facilitate training at district

level

work closely with national

researchers/academic institutions, local

NGOs and AIT

Provide annual report to AIT

COMMENCEMENT DATE & PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION

The period of implementation of the contract will be < 57 (fifty seven) months

REQUIREMENT

Personnel

A policy person from concerned ministries

Two provincial coordinators from concerned ministries

Six district trainers from concerned ministries

Policy Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives

Policy of restructure the agricultural economy

Production Development for Sustainable Agriculture

Food Security : By promoting the reasonable production of food crops and energy. Allocating production for sufficient consumption and renewable of energy which emphasizes on the importance of the food.

Organic : Promotion of organic farming to farmers to comply with environmental friendly production.

Regeneration / Conservation land : Promoting the planting Vetiver grass at highland to prevent soil erosion and planting green manure as soil conditioner

province

District

Sub-

district

village

Number of

population

Phitsanulok

9

93

1,048

842,507

Surin

17

159

2,119

1,377,827

province

total area (hectare)

Agricultural area

Paddy field

Phitsanulok

1,081,585.44

507,963.84

268,541.76

Surin

812,405.1

650,686.88

578,079.2

province

Rainfall (mm/year)

Average

temperature (°C)

Relative

humility (%)

Phitsanulok

1,333.79

27.67

71.30

Surin 1,390.32 27.18 71.28

Activities Activity

partner

province time

Phitsa

nulok

Surin total

Training (AIT) Super adviser - co-province : rice

department 2 peoples/ province

2 2 4 June-Dec

2013

Training (in

province)

- Smart officer : researcher and

extension worker (Rice department

and Department of Agricultural

Extension )

3 3 6 May-Nov

2014-

2016

- Smart farmers: select 8 / district 24 24 48 May-Nov

2014-

2016

Action plan (first year)

Activities Semeter 1 semeter 2

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1. Appointment PMU

coordinator

2. Identify one local

coordinator

3.Site selection (District

and farmers selection)

4. Baseline survey

5. Community forum

Action plan Activities Semeter 1 semeter 2

Yr 2-4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1. Demonstration

plot

2. Experiment

- Land preparation

and Seedling

preparation

- Tillering

- Flowering

- Harvesting

2.Field day

3.Monitoring and

evaluation

4.After action

review