About 3.1 million Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger in the third quarter of 2018, according to the Social Weather Stations. The very same families are dealing with exorbitant prices of rice, vegetables, meat, and fish, with inflation at 6.4 percent in August - a nine-year high. They...
About 2.2 million Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger in the second quarter of 2018, according to a Social Weather Survey. At the same time, the country is regularly battered by storms and drought, destroying crops and miring farmers deeper into poverty. Food is also more...
The government needs a coordinated plan in place to ensure the country’s food and nutrition security. This was the recurring theme in the presentations and arguments during the roundtable discussions held today to tackle food and nutrition insecurity in the face of inflation and extreme...
When Jimmy Ceguerra was elected kagawad of Brgy. Tumana in Marikina City in 2010, he was shocked to discover just how malnourished the children in his locality were. A survey of elementary students revealed that 13 percent of them were either underweight or severely underweight, pointing to...
World Food Day is celebrated across the world every 16th of October. And why should we care about it? Well, the right to food is a basic human right. Basic, yet our country suffers from chronic food emergency, where only 3 out of 10 Filipino households...
Manila, Philippines, 19 September 2017 - The Peoples’ Food Movement (PFM) [1], League of Organic Municipalities and Cities (LOAMC) [2], #IAmHampasLupa, and some individuals trooped to Malacañang today and filed the draft Executive Order that calls for the Creation of a Cabinet Food Cluster. The...
This story first appeared on Ryan Bestre's Green Minded Me Blog (https://greenmindedryan.wordpress.com/category/environment/) Who’s crazy enough to give up their long weekend which could be spent for rest or a quick getaway in the beach in favor of doing hard labor construction work for three days? Well,...
Raw food advocate and vegetarian Sonia Astudillo wants to disabuse people of the thought that eating healthy is expensive and complicated. In fact, when she chose this lifestyle in 2013, she started with just a spoon, fork and a good knife. “Plus, a coconut opener.” “Raw vegan...
Eleven student leaders from Zamboanga City participated in the Chikainan forum held at the Western Mindanao State University. The participants talked about the time and financial constraints that prevented them from eating healthy, as well as the unavailability of choices given their religious affiliations. They admitted not...
Organic farming has a long way to go in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Over chicken pinikpikan – a native Cordillera soup dish – sayote tops and rice, participants to a Chikainan in Bgy. Pito, Bokod, Benguet – young professionals from Baguio City and farmers from the...