[ANALYSIS] Green infrastructure: Agriculture’s contribution to Build Better More

'Strategically planted vetiver and bamboo hedges create and restore living shorelines, riverbanks, drained wetlands, watersheds, and fishponds at a fraction of what capital-intensive brick-and-mortar grey infrastructure costs'

The damage caused by the recent typhoons right where we have our critical rice granaries in Central Luzon presented another wake-up call for the. During his overseas sorties to attract foreign investments and parry growing criticism, President and concurrent DA Secretary Ferdinand R. Marcos identified destructive weather as another major cause for imposing price controls.

Not as obvious is its destructive impact on infrastructure, specifically transportation and public works such as roads and bridges, farm-to-market trails, dams and dikes, seawalls and breakwaters, and even overhead power and telecommunication lines. These fall under hisThe failure to control stormwater run-offs has led to coastal erosion and severe damage to man-made buffers.

Fortunately, a unique solution lies with the DA where at least some of the destructive costs can be mitigated. Turning to the cost-effective best practices toolkit of other more successfully managed agriculture sectors in comparable economies, we see where their green infrastructure programs provide effective multi-dimensional solutions.

As expected, in the Philippines both vetiver and bamboo remain under-used local resources notably in the agricultural sector where their impact as productivity catalysts has been overshadowed by more expensive solutions. Worse, their non-agricultural applications in infrastructure and transportation development and planning are largely ignored.

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