Incorporating the SDGs Into the Philippine Development Plan (PDP)

The PDP offers a comprehensive roadmap with policies and initiatives to help us get the desired development results. The PDP 2023-2028 underscores the need for deep and fundamental transformations across social, economic, institutional, and environmental sectors. Its overarching objective is to reinvigorate job creation and accelerate poverty reduction toward a prosperous, inclusive, and resilient society.

The plan will be guided by transformative ideas, which include (a) addressing the systematic ills of agriculture and agribusiness (AA) through a whole-of-value-chain approach that considers AFF production as tightly linked to processing, marketing, consumption, and waste management; (b) restoring the local food culture toward improving agri-food system resiliency, empowering local farmer, and linking AFF production to consumer nutrition and health of the environment; and (c) opening up more opportunities in the blue economy to leverage and optimize the country’s vast coastal and marine resources and maritime domain. 

The challenges facing agriculture and agribusiness are discussed in Chapter 5 of the PDP 2023-2028, along with the pursued outcomes to address these challenges during the Plan period. These outcomes include: (a) enhanced efficiency of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries (AFF) production; (b) expanded access to markets and agriculture, forestry, and fisheries-based enterprises; and (c) improved resilience of AFF value chains; and (d) strengthened agricultural extensions.