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This new study looks at the potential for introducing agricultural insurance services in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the Philippines, aimed at building the resilience of smallholders to extreme natural events.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Philippines today called for more investments to enhance the country’s resilience, particularly in agriculture, ten years after Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Super Typhoon Yolanda, devastated central Philippines. This includes the adoption of the Anticipatory Action (AA) approach...

FAO, in partnership with the Philippine Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), has launched a technical cooperation project that aims to improve the government agency's Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) database and information system in support of its "Kumustasaka" programme. Titled "Technical Support on the Enhancement of the Existing Information System for Agrarian...

The Philippines is blessed with rich natural resources, forests being one of the most important. For Filipinos, forests and forestlands provide a wide array of economic and social benefits. These include contributions to the overall economy – for example through employment, processing and trade of forest products and energy –...

FAO, under the ongoing project "Responsible use of fisheries and aquaculture resources for sustainable development" (GCP/GLO/352/NOR), in collaboration with the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of...