Improving agri sector resilience to boost production

The Philippines must adopt more effective strategies to help build the agricultural sector’s resilience to climate change.

The study “Impacts of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Food Security, and Natural Resources and Environment in the Philippines” shows that typhoons, floods, and droughts cause damage to increasingly larger areas of agricultural lands. From 2000 to 2010, agricultural areas affected by natural disasters increased in size from over 683,400 hectares in 2000, to more than 977,200 hectares in 2010, incurring damages totaling to P106.9 billion.