Featured Stories:

- FAO and DA take agriculture disaster risk reduction to the next level

- Restoring livelihoods of typhoon-hit farmers in Central Luzon

- Pikit farmers acquire livelihood and disaster risk reduction skills

- Regional food security initiatives gain momentum in the Philippines

- Fisheries Improvement Plans adopted by 11 coastal communities

- FAO's Typhoon Haiyan experience: Building back better means addressing the root causes of poverty, food insecurity and vulnerability to disasters

Featured Stories:

- Climate-resilient tilapia farming seen to contribute to food security in the Philippines
- Strategic framework to guide FAO initiatives in Mindanao through 2020
- International delegation observes DRR approaches in the Philippines
- FAO and DA work together to assist farmers affected by Typhoon Koppu
- Early warning system helps Aklan LGUs address malnutrition and food insecurity
- Two years after Typhoon Haiyan: Revisiting the road to recovery

Featured Stories:

- Asia-Pacific region achieves MDG hunger target, but millions still chronically hungry
- Three new projects launched to restore agricultural livelihoods and food security in Mindanao
- IPC chronic food security analysis of Mindanao
- Building more resilient farming communities after Typhoon Haiyan
- Partnerships: working together to improve food security

About three-quarters of the population in the 18 provinces of Mindanao fall under levels 2, 3 and 4, with an estimated 1.96 million people suffering from severe chronic food insecurity (CFI), 3.67 million people from moderate CFI and 7 million people from mild CFI.

Source: FAO Philippines Newsletter 2015 - Issue 3, p7 

Feature stories:

- Philippines takes first steps towards a national DRR strategy for agriculture
- Green Super Rice gives Bicol farmers higher yield
- Sustainable agriculture: key to lasting peace in Mindanao
- Seaweed farmers regain livelihoods after Typhoon Haiyan
- Contour farming puts farmers back on the path to recovery