A griculturally-dependent provinces in Asia are among the poorest in the world. This is because the potential of the industry is not maximized. Many countries import agricultural products, including pork are sourced elsewhere and not produced locally. In the same way, the Philippines imports agricultural products like vegetables and livestock products, other products were imported from other provinces.The overall swine inventory in the Philippines was expected to be 9.49 million heads. Backyard swine inventories fell by 7.0 percent, while commercial swine inventories rose by 1.9 percent. 70.6 percent of the total pig population was raised on private farms, with the remaining 29.4 percent coming from commercial farms. Western Visayas reported the highest total swine population of 1.15 million heads, followed by Central Visayas with 1.14 million heads and CALA-BARZON with 1.02 million heads. These three regions accounted for 34.9 percent of the total swine inventory in the country (PSA, 2021) Catbalogan is the provincial capital of Samar in the Philippines, with 57 barangays. Its population reached 106,440 in 2020, of which 85-90% are pork eaters (PSA, 2020).Pig farming in the backyard is extremely limited. In basic housing, many backyard families rear only one or two hogs. The feed comes mostly from crop res-Abstract | The emerging supply chain of pork and its effects on small-scale raisers in Catbalogan City was examined using mixed methods. Supply and consumption were forecasted using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. Pork prices increased by 22-50% in 2021 compared to 2010 data. Liveweight pig prices also increased by 9-39% for the same year in review. It was noted that 27% of the supply was locally produced, and 73% were imported from other regions. Locally sourced pig supply is pegged at 53%, and the rest (47%) are imported from various towns in Samar and other regions. The demand for pork and live pigs is 27% and 55% higher than the supply. The said gap can be filled in by local farmers/raisers with an overall market opportunity of 70,996 kilograms monthly.

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Catbalogan Sky City Mega Project (CSCMP) is a climate-change (CC) adaptation strategy proposed after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in November 2013. It is currently being built on top of a hill about 120m from sea level to avoid the impact of storm surges, sea-level rise, and flooding. With the city’s continued expansion, water demand further worsens the supply gap. This study focused on determining the carbon footprint of the proposed water supply scarcity solution. This solution includes the construction of a reservoir to receive runoff water from the watershed where the CSCMP is located. Results of the study show that the reservoir can supply the water requirement for the entire city. However, the carbon footprint of the recommended solution is between 123% and 557% due to water treatment of heavily contaminated runoff water and the power consumption in distributing water to higher elevations. There is a need for the city to design a harvesting system that will reduce the need for more intense water treatment (i.e., reducing exposure of runoff water to contaminants) and the use of renewable energy in powering pumps and other treatment activities.

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