The Philippines faces overlapping climate and nutrition challenges, including extreme weather, environmental degradation, and a triple burden of malnutrition: undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and rising overweight and obesity. These risks are compounded by diets increasingly dominated by ultra-processed foods and low diversity.
Fragmented policies addressing climate change or nutrition alone reduce their effectiveness. Integrating nutrition and climate action can multiply benefits; by improving diets, strengthening farmer livelihoods, increasing agricultural resilience, and lowering diet-related healthcare costs.
This policy brief highlights practical ways to address these challenges through a food systems approach, including promoting diverse and safe diets, supporting climate-smart production and value chains, and phasing out harmful practices like the sachet economy.
Drawing on insights from a multi-stakeholder workshop, it highlights priority areas for policy and programmatic action and provides clear, evidence-based entry points for policymakers, practitioners, and partners working towards healthier and more resilient food systems in the Philippines.
