The Philippines may be the fastest-growing economy in Asia side-by-side with China, but the country’s “agricultural productivity and extreme weather” changes threatens the country’s opportunity to rise further, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.

In the study titled Food Security Challenges in Asia, ADB Independent Evaluation Department Vinod Thomas said that the slowing of rice production not only in the country, but also in Asia, as well as the effects of climate change puts pressure on food prices, but in a steady pace for the coming years.

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