Debt, peso slide and looming Super El Niรฑo put PH food security at risk
Food security in the Philippines is increasingly undermined by the convergence of three interacting systemic pressures: (1) rising national debt and fiscal rigidity, (2) peso depreciation driven by structural import dependence and governance failures, and (3) climate-induced agricultural losses under the looming Super El Niรฑo. An analysis of the Philippine debt situation, the downward spiral