Three years ago, in a forum held by the World Economic Forum on East Asia, it was mentioned that the average age of farmers in the Philippines was 57. Senator Francis Pangilinan observed that the new generation of Filipinos refuse to go farming and if that’s the case, who will feed the people? The forum adopted are solution to empower the farmers, to create sustainable agriculture in Asia, to make it more disaster resilient, to focus on how to reduce food waste and to improve cross-border collaboration. Stephen Groff of Asian Development Bank concluded that, “agriculture is one of the most effective ways in reducing poverty as a vast number of poverty-stricken families is in the rural areas. If we’re serious about inclusive growth, agriculture is going to be at the core of the solution.”