.. =i~==t= ~--~~···=~~·~=·-::=:-.: ~·=- ""~~==·=r= ===""======~===="""==~~-=-=·=""'" They see at least two sustainable development goals (SDGs) that are relevant to serve as benchmark indicator in measuring the gap between the aspirations and the current status. The two SDGs are: • Goal 1 - End poverty in all its forms everywhere through significant mobilization of resources including enhanced development cooperation and sound policy frameworks based on pro-poor and gender sensitive development strategies. More so, there must be efforts to address the multidimensional forms of poverty through the provision of equal rights to economic resources and access to basic services. • Goal 2 - End hunger and malnutrition through sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality. It is also the objective to double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment. NEDA further asserts that given Philippine agriculture's potential in achieving the two SDGs, the following course of action is taken into account, as follows: I. Promotion of area-based development as an over-all strategy, in contrast to commodity-based. • • • Promote production diversification/intensification - the farmers must be knowledgeable with other farming methods, and not merely on what they have been accustomed to. As per data, a farmer that plants rice only, particularly the traditional variety, earns very little; Enhance investment in productivity-enhancing infrastructures and other support services such as on irrigation and post harvest facilities; Enhance provision of agricultural insurance and credit to farmers and fisherfolks; 25