For the longest time, farmers and fishermen consistently recorded the highest poverty incidences among the basic sectors in the Philippines. Despite the increase in the budget of agriculture in recent years, the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that farmers and fishermen remained the poorest basic sectorsPoverty incidences among farmers and fishers were at 31.6 percent and 26.2 percent, respectively, higher than the average poverty incidence of 16.
These basic sectors produce food for the country, yet their per capita income cannot sufficiently meet their basic food and non-food needs, based on the PSA’s definition of poverty incidence. Little wonder, then, that the offspring of farmers and fishers seem reluctant to go into agriculture. There is practically no incentive for them to take the place of their parents whose earnings would not even allow them to study or even procure basic necessities.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations noted that small-scale fisheries produce 40 percent of all the fish that we eat. Yet many small-scale fisheries and fish workers suffer from poverty and marginalization, work under substandard conditions, experience high fatality rates and suffer occupational safety and health risks.
FAO, the Vatican and the Catholic maritime charity, Stella Maris jointly marked World Fisheries Day on November 21. They called for greater social protection for small-scale fishers and fish workers, as many people employed in the fisheries sector had limited access to finance and insurance, safety networks and social programs to help them survive and prosper.
It would do well for our policymakers to heed the call of FAO and the Vatican and immediately put in place interventions that will allow fishers to increase their income and get out of poverty, as recent developments have shown that it is becoming more difficult to make their livelihood sustainable. For one, geopolitical developments, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused oil and animal feed prices to shoot up.
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