1. Weathering the Crises, Feeding the Future: Philippine food justice report
- Author:
- Jeanne Frances Illo and Dante Dalabajan
- Publication Date:
- 10-2011
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract:
- At the height of the food price crisis in 2008, the Philippines was among the countries with "severe localized food insecurity" requiring external assistance in food.3 A series of severe weatherrelated events occurred in 2009 with the total damage to the economy exceeding 100 bn pesos-more than twice the amount allocated for agriculture that year. Rice imports reached an all-time high of 2.45 million metric tons in 2010, making the Philippines the biggest rice importing country in the world that year.
- Topic:
- Security, Agriculture, Economics, Humanitarian Aid, and Food
- Political Geography:
- Israel and Philippines