The International Potato Center (CIP) in collaboration with Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) organized a Regional Policy Forum on “Opportunities for a climate-smart food system in the Philippines” on February 7, 2019 at Astoria Plaza, Ortigas Business District, Pasig City, Philippines. A total of 63 participants from the government, policy institutes, international organizations, academia and the civil society participated.

Officials from NEDA, DA-Agriculture and Training Institute, Department of Agrarian Reform, PCAARRD, Philippines Rice Research Institute, Philippines Crop Insurance Corporation, Bureau of Plant Industry, DA- RFO 3, DA-RFO 8, UP Resilience Institute, along with several other International and National organizations working on the above topic were present in this program.