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Poverty reduction and market empowerment for Filipino small scale fishers is possible. This can be achieved through the parallel thrusts of community-based coastal resource management and social enterprise development, apart from ensuring that small scale fishers have access to adequate capital and appropriate infrastructure. Needless to say, we need to maintain a viable and sustainable fisheries.

Climate change is a phenomenon in nature that is largely induced by human activities. The main factor in global warming, for instance, is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to the heavy use of fossil fuels in production and other related human activities. The impacts of climate change are often worsened by the social and environmental costs of human productive.