Rice, Biodiversity and Climate Change

SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Privilege Speech on Rice, Biodiversity and Climate Change
December 18, 2013 – Senate Session Hall
 
Filipinos are rice-loving citizens. Rice is our staple food and we find it harder to resist eating rice than any other kind of food. In fact, many Filipinos can live with almost any dish as long as they pair it with rice.
 
The sad fact however, is that o`ur rice production is greatly affected by the warming climate. If we want to continue enjoying eating rice […]