Climate variability and poor distribution of rainfall often causes serious agricultural production losses and worsens food insecurity. Given that the direct effects of climate change and variability are transmitted through the agricultural sector, improving farm households capacities to adapt to...

The formation of social capital is hypothesised to enhance collective efforts for soil conservation. The Landcare Program in the southern Philippines promotes simple conservation practices in upland environments by supporting community landcare groups and municipal landcare associations, thus...

The important role of bonding and bridging social capital in technology adoption has been well documented. This holds true in the dissemination of soil conservation technologies in the town of Claveria under the Landcare program. Past studies unanimously attribute high adoption rates to the...