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According to a Climate Change Commission (CCC) official, edible landscaping (EL) could be the key to achieving national food security.

After his recent visit to Kalinga province to meet with local leaders, Albert Dela Cruz Jr., the Climate Change Commissioner, advised local government units (LGUs) and the corporate sector to adopt EL as part of their climate action plans.

He stated that it would be beneficial in many ways to leverage technologies created for food production that can be used for “household-level” crop cultivation.

“Most of our households could profit by having their own sources of food even at the smallest scale imaginable if they were to utilize the open space within their houses,” he said in a news release.

Dela Cruz added that when the fundamental tenets of landscape design become the driving principles, such production systems, and technologies may be implemented and used with more zeal.

According to Dela Cruz, EL should not be viewed solely as crop production because it involves a complex activity of planning, design, execution, and maintenance, just like is done in traditional landscaping.

“BIO-intensive gardening (BIG), which is frequently employed in small spaces to boost production, can be integrated with EL. BIG is a technique for growing crops that makes the most of available space and makes use of local resources. The goal is to create a lovely and useful edible landscape while producing safe, easily accessible, nutritious food for the family and the community, and maximizing the use of all the site’s resources, he continued.

Dela Cruz claimed that starting EL and gardening could assist the private sector in utilizing the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) mechanisms offered by the Department of Agriculture, where institutional risks in the appropriation of funds could be minimized while government investments would also be protected.

In his words, “via AMIA, development programs, initiatives, and techniques might be altered to handle climate change concerns and this would benefit not only those who will engage in this new concept of edible landscaping and gardening but the entire country as well.”

According to him, the distance between food production facilities and target people raises further questions about the quality of the final product and the rising health risks associated with the necessity to add chemicals to produce in order to extend its shelf life after harvest.

“Urban depressed groups are most susceptible to issues with food availability. These areas lack readily accessible tillable land, and food is frequently obtained from outside sources. The public and the government have excellent reason to look for the answers necessary to create safe and easily accessible food as a result of the growing worries about food availability, he said.

Dela Cruz is now working on a climate change strategy that would require all public sectors to use a portion of their public monies for food gardening and landscaping rather than ornamental plants.

EL is a cutting-edge idea that could promote edible and green vegetation. Through it, various landscape design principles are combined with small-scale crop technologies, and vegetables, herbs, and fruit crops are used as major softscape materials to replace the ornamental plants that are typically used in conventional landscaping.

EL is currently being heavily marketed in the Philippines and is still available for development to support a wider range of crop output.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. described the food as “not merely a trade commodity but is an existential need and one that is moral” in his first State of the Nation Address in July 2022.

“People become sick and die without food, and societies break down. It is more than just a means of subsistence; it is a moral and existential requirement. The unfair competition will make it harder or impossible for agriculture to recover from the harm it has already done. said, Marcos.

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