Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture. Title: Social Learning Approaches in Climate Smart Village Development: Guinayangan Philippines case Speaker: Rene R. Vidallo

1. Social Learning Approaches
in Climate Smart Village
Development
Experience from the Guinayangan CSV in
the Philippines

2. Dr. James Yen was conferred Copernican award with nine other
"modern revolutionaries" including Albert Einstein, Orville Wright,
Walt Disney, Henry Ford, and John Dewey in 1943
“The people are the
foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a
lasting peace on earth: the
release of the strength of
the common man.”
“We work with the people
not out of pity but out of
respect for their potential
for growth and
development, both as
individuals and as
communities.”
- Dr. Yen

3. Social
learning
• Social learning is defined as the process through which groups of people
learn, by jointly defining problems, searching for and implementing
solutions, and assessing the value of solutions for specific problems
(Koelen and Das, 2002).

4. Participatory
Action Researches
Community activities
validation workshops
Commodity/Sector Profiling
Baseline establishment
Participatory Vulnerability Assessments
Action Research Agenda
Sector/commodity agenda
Community adaptation agenda

5. Community support
systems

6. Knowledge sharing & scaling

7. CSA
Technologies
& practices
Local
Support
Systems
Social
Learning
CSA
Scaling

8. Thank you!
For more information, please contact:
Rene Vidallo (rene.vidallo@iirr.org)
Dr. Julian Gonsalves (juliangonsalves@yahoo.com)