We received a more bleak, yet more realistic climate report last week, noting how much of the polar ice caps have melted, and how the feared change due to these climate shifts are here.
We received a more bleak, yet more realistic climate report last week, noting how much of the polar ice caps have melted, and how the feared change due to these climate shifts are here.
In Mindanao, we may not have the same number of super-typhoons, but we have begun feeling the deep impacts on our agriculture. The weak corn harvests in 2015 caused an uptick in chicken prices, and the weak durian harvests of 2017, according to some, 2018 were precipitated by a long dry spell. The recent overproduction of mangoes tell us how climate is affecting production.
This will have a profound effect on our food supply and farm incomes, especially in ASEAN’S two largest countries that constitute half its population: Indonesia and the Philippines. Both have the archipelagic lay out and mountainous terrain make efficient consolidation of commodities costly, creating a struggle for both to meet the politically important rice self-sufficiency objective over the last 20 years.
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