Enhancing Food Security, Innovation, Health and Wellness in Adapting to Climate Change

Climate change poses major threats to human security, food shortages, and displacement. Extreme weather events and the spread of climate-related pests and diseases significantly impact people's health and well-being. Using hard copy and a Google Forms survey as dependable data collection tools, this study investigated how climate change affects food security, innovation, health, and wellness. The study employed descriptive correlational and causal research designs. A sample was drawn from 112 learning sites for agriculture owners in Northern Mindanao using a proportionate stratified random sampling. Findings show that farmers consistently and generally perceived a very high level of enhancing food security, innovation, health, and wellness in adapting to climate change. In addition, climate change impact is highly correlated with food security, agricultural food innovation, health, and wellness. Moreover, variables that best predict the effect of climate change are enhancing food availability in food security, physical health in health and wellness, and improving food processing and preservation techniques in food innovation, which are both significant predictors of climate change. Finally, an intervention program model is created, like creating an online localized farmer’s hub business model named “Food Basket Hub”, establishing a food processing training center in SUCs, creating a food innovation center in local municipalities, and developing software that will help smallholder farmers access free medical consultation through an AI-driven multi-platform application named "FarmHealthAI”.