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FAO Philippines Newsletter 2015. Issue 3 WELCOME Contents Asia-Pacific region achieves elcome to the third issue of the capacities of local governments and MDG hunger target, but FAO Philippines newsletter. My farmers in community-based disaster millions still chronically W team and I are pleased to update risk reduction and management. 3 hungry you on the status of our programmes and the activities we have undertaken in DRR is also integral to the three new the second quarter of 2015. livelihood restoration projects that Three new projects launched FAO recently launched in central and to restore agricultural We continue to maintain our western Mindanao. Through these livelihoods and food security engagement in Typhoon Haiyan- new projects, more than 15 000 farmer 4 in Mindanao affected regions as we approach the and fisher-households will be able final phase of our recovery efforts. to resume their farming and fishing Eighteen of our 22 projects have been activities and gain knowledge on DRR. IPC chronic food security completed, with substantial impacts Women and combatants of the Moro analysis of Mindanao in restoring agriculture and fisheries- Islamic Liberation Front who are likely 6 based livelihoods and improving the to be decommissioned as part of the capability of beneficiary communities to peace process will also benefit from prepare for and cope with future shocks FAO’s assistance. and emergencies. We aim to complete Building more resilient our activities by year-end, bringing the I am proud to highlight that all of farming communities after total number of beneficiaries to at least these accomplishments and new 8 Typhoon Haiyan 154 000 households that will be well on opportunities to contribute to their way to longer-term recovery. Philippine development are outcomes of our strong partnerships with Shifting weather patterns observed the Government, donors and other Partnerships: throughout the archipelago as well as stakeholders. Working together to the onset of the rainy season further 10 improve food security reminds us of the urgent need to On behalf of FAO, I would like to thank support the Philippines in disaster risk all of our government counterparts reduction (DRR) and climate change and development partners for their adaptation. While we intensify our continued support. I hope that the Events collaboration with the Department stories in this newsletter will continue to of Agriculture to contribute to the inspire you to stay on track in pursuing 12 development of a national DRR our shared vision of more food secure strategy, we are also simultaneously and resilient farming communities. implementing assistance activities at the local government level. This includes consolidating capacities for disaster risk reduction in agriculture, specifically replicating good practice farming options, providing localized weather outlooks for agriculture, promoting the use of post-disaster José Luis Fernández needs assessment tools and increasing FAO Representative in the Philippines FAO Representative José Luis Fernández plants a rambutan tree to mark the hand over of assistance to coconut farming communities devastated by Typhoon ©FAO/R.Cabrera Haiyan in Leyte Province. FAO is equipping affected farmers to diversify and intensify their livelihoods through intercropping and livestock integration. 2 I FAO Philippines Newsletter 2015 FOOD SECURITY ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ©FAO/V.D.Anna Asia-Pacific region achieves MDG hunger target, An assessment of the achievement of MDG targets in the region showed that the proportion but millions still chronically hungry of underweight children under the age of 5 remains a serious problem in many economies. he Asia-Pacific region has achieved remain in addressing malnutrition production and provide the essential the Millennium Development Goals’ caused by short-term inadequacy support services including irrigation, T hunger target (MDG-1c) of halving of food intake, with 33.6 percent of credit, farm-to-market roads and the proportion of undernourished children under five stunted. research and development, among people in 2015, however there are others. still 490 million people in the region, In 2015, 13.7 million Filipinos are still two-thirds of the world’s population, undernourished and approximately FAO support suffering from chronic hunger 19 percent of the population are living according to a regional report on the on only USD 1.25 a day. Guided by its Country Programming state of food insecurity issued by the Framework, FAO complements FAO. “FAO remains strongly committed to the Government’s initiatives by support the Philippine Government in strengthening the capacity of national While the report confirmed that Asia its effort to fight against hunger and and local government agencies in and the Pacific region has made some malnutrition and in making economic improving food and nutrition security, great strides in food security, achieving growth inclusive and beneficial to enhancing agricultural production the largest reduction in the absolute the vulnerable segments of the and productivity and promoting the number of undernourished people population, particularly in the farming sustainable management of natural (236 million) and almost all countries communities,” said FAO Representative resources and agricultural adaptation now having adequate food supplies in the Philippines José Luis Fernández. and mitigation to climate change and to meet people’s average dietary disaster risk reduction. needs, the region is sadly still home The report concluded that slow to almost 62 percent of the world’s progress of many countries in the About the report undernourished. region was due to the rise of inequality and slow growth in agriculture, which The Regional Overview of Food Besides the calorie consumption deficit, continues to employ the poorest Insecurity-Asia and the Pacific is part the problem of undernutrition is also people and affords lower wages than of the State of Food Insecurity in the manifested in high rates of stunting in industries or services. Employment World (SOFI 2015), which is published children below five years of age, while and livelihood security is also annually by FAO, the International Fund various micronutrient deficiencies undermined by threats of natural for Agricultural Development and the prevail among people of all ages. At disasters. More often than not, those World Food Programme. the same time, the number of people with limited resources and vulnerable who are overweight or obese is rapidly livelihoods bear the brunt of natural increasing in the region, especially in disasters brought by changing climate Southwest Pacific Island countries and conditions. The report can be downloaded from the middle-income countries of Asia. FAO Philippines website: www.fao.org/ Government initiative philippines ©FAO/R.Cabrera Boosting efforts to fight hunger in the Philippines Maintaining or achieving food staples self-sufficiency is a major national The Philippines has made significant priority for the Philippines and in progress in improving food production support of this, the Government and recently won recognition from FAO has earmarked Php 86.1 billion for achieving the international MDG-1c (USD 1.9 million) for the Agricultural target. Notwithstanding, according Development Program in 2015. The to the regional report, challenges still funding is being used to boost crop Issue 3 I 3 MINdaNAO ©FAO/M.Navales Three new projects launched to restore agricultural Farmers in Maguindanao Province livelihoods and food security in Mindanao re-plant their disaster-stricken farm with support from FAO. AO has launched three new The Department of Agriculture (DA) assistance will include training to projects in central and western estimates that crop and vegetable enhance farmers’ capacity to cope F Mindanao, through which production losses in Maguindanao with future shocks and emergencies. more than 15 000 agriculture- alone have reached more than Climate-smart farmer field schools dependent households in vulnerable 24 000 metric tonnes as a result of will also be established to build communities will be able to resume three natural and human-induced farmers’ knowledge of climate change their farming and fishing activities disasters that struck the region in the adaptation as well as seed banking and disrupted by armed conflict, drought first half of 2015. More than production that will reduce difficulties and flooding. These are part of 125 people in the province, most of in sourcing seeds for the next cropping the Organization’s larger effort to them from farming households, were season. strengthen the agriculture sector and displaced by armed clashes in January, food security in the Philippines. which was immediately followed In Zamboanga City, FAO and the by mild drought due to the El Niño International Labour Organization (ILO) “We are working closely with the phenomenon, and flooding caused by are jointly implementing a project that Government and other partners, torrential rains and overflowing rivers will support the livelihood recovery including the Department of and tributaries. of fisherfolk displaced by the armed Agriculture and Fisheries of the encounter between the Government Autonomous Region in Muslim In partnership with the DA, Bureau and the Moro National Liberation Front Mindanao, in responding to the of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in September 2013. urgent livelihood recovery needs and local government units, FAO will of the affected population. 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