Over the five months since the commencement of the project, good progress has been made across all 13 activities with all but one being on track against projected milestones. Achievements to date include:
Development of a Landcare Coordinators Network to improve coordination of technical inputs between sites;
Conduct of special meetings with landcare stakeholders at Claveria, Lantapan, Ned, Pilar and San Isidro to better clarify the needs of market clusters and landcare members;
Development of a program of cross-visits between sites for farmers and local technical support personnel;
Development of a training program template for new scaling up sites to maximise impact from technical inputs and cross-visits;
Development of collaborative network between the Landcare Coordinators Network and the Philippines Horticulture Manager to improve information exchange and collaborative project activities between Landcare Coordinators and horticulture project personnel.

Good progress was made across all but one of the 13 scheduled activities in line with projected milestones. The one activity not progressed was the business assessment of LFPI providing specialist technical services, such as soil analysis services, to the ACIAR horticulture projects. This was abandoned because of lack of technical feasibility and capacity limitations stemming from LFPI's involvement in the large ACDI-VOCA CocoPAL Project.

Note that as the project is complementary with Project ASEM/2002/051, achievements in some of the scheduled activities are shared across the reports of both projects.

Major achievements included:
Regular networking and action planning between members of the LFPI Landcare Coordinators Network to improve coordination of technical inputs between sites.
Better coordination of technical and facilitation inputs to the landcare programs in Claveria, Lantapan, Ned, Pilar and San Isidro following the stakeholder consultation meetings held in the previous reporting period.
Implementation of a program of cross-visits between sites for farmers and local technical support personnel. This included direct landcare to landcare group interchange and special cross visits of landcare farmers from South Cotabato and Bohol to Leyte to study protected cropping systems for vegetables implemented under the ACIAR vegetable project. The cross visits were instrumental in setting up farmer to farmer networks for future interchange on topics such as agro-enterprise and cluster marketing.
Implementation of a training program to better connect new scaling up sites with technical inputs and cross-visits. This included the involvement of farmers from Kablon, a new scaling up site in South Cotabato, in the cross-visit to Leyte to study protected cropping systems in vegetables.
Further development of the collaborative network between the Landcare Coordinators Network and the Philippines Horticulture Manager to improve information exchange and collaborative project activities between Landcare Coordinators and horticulture project personnel. During the year, this helped facilitate connections with potential donors; involvement of the landcare team in review workshops of the horticulture project; use of the horticulture project's technical network to assist landcare facilitators with various technical queries; and collaboration between LFPI and the horticulture project's component groups on field days and other linkages with farmers.
Development of a special technical study group involving LFPI and horticulture project technical personnel to improve the farmer uptake and impact of biofumigation technologies for bacterial wilt control in vegetables.
Development of a sub-project to improve the two-way sharing on extension methodologies between LFPI and horticulture project personnel. This was formulated at the July 2010 review workshop of the horticulture project and has been progressively developed by a steering group throughout the year under review. It will be a major focus of the review workshop of the horticulture project in July 2011.