With extreme weather events like typhoons, droughts, and floods becoming more frequent and severe, the...
QUEZON CITY -- FAO, the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Government of Japan forge cooperation to restore agri-fishery-based livelihoods and promote climate resiliency among farmers and fisherfolk affected by the onslaught of Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai).
Dubbed the second costliest typhoon in the Philippines, the calamity struck...
According to a 2021 study by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Central Office and USAID, the municipal fisheries sector losses about 257,000 – 402,000 metric tons of fisheries catch annually, valued at around PHP 24.1 – 37.8 billion, due to illegal fishing. There also remains a significant number...
Around 150 key actors from international humanitarian, government and non-government organizations, donor agencies and civil society vowed to strengthen collaboration toward institutionalizing Anticipatory Action (AA) in the Philippines by signing a commitment wall at the conclusion of the National Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action last 12 May.
At the hybrid event...
Mid-morning, Norma Silad, an elderly woman living in one of the most conflict-affected villages in Maguindanao del Sur province gently sprinkles water on the snow cabbage and tomato plants that she and her other women friends have been planting on recycled mineral gallons hung on bamboo stilts.
Just the other day,...
Earlier this year, the Philippines’ Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) confirmed the presence of leaf fall disease in rubber trees in Mindanao in the south of the country. DENR officials reacted quickly, sending an official request for support to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
