In light of the increasing hunger rate in the country, Senator Loren Legarda emphasized the need for stronger support for our country's agriculture to avert a possible food crisis and combat hunger in the Philippines."The Social Weather Stations showed that there is an increase of 24 percent ...
Bringing home the baconYour next job? Senior Climate Finance Specialist (Agribusiness)Asian Development BankThe Philippines See more jobs → Chew on this World Food Programme trucks reached North Darfur’s Zamzam camp on Friday for the first time since famine was declared there in August [UN ...
In line with an analogous decision of the UN General Assembly, the World Health Assembly though resolution WHA 25.1, of 1972, decided “(…) to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the World Heal...
The hunger index is classified into five grades in severity scale, including low, moderate, serious, alarming, and extremely alarming. Only three African countries on the continent, namely Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco have achieved a low level of hunger, while 28 countries fall under the "serio...
The conference was held after 40 years since the first Global Conference on Primary Health Care, held in 1978 in Almaty (then Alma-Ata), Kazakhstan. It has been noticed that across the WHO European Region the main challenges prevailing around the country include unstable economic crisis, ...
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Undernourishment in the world 842 million people estimated to be in chronic hunger in 2011– down from 868 million in million live in developing countries Hunger progress mixed WFS goal out of reach: number of hungry people in developing regions should diminish to 498 million by 2015 MDG 1c hu...
An acute food crisis exists in India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The population of these areas forms one-third to one-half of the population of the world (end of the 1970’s). Thus, 300 to 500 million people are starving, and approximately 1 billion people are undernourished. An inhabit...
DC. To prove it, food riots have erupted in countries all along the equator. In Haiti, protesters chanting “We're hungry” forced the prime minister to resign; 24 people were killed in riots in Cameroon; Egypt's president ordered the army to start baking bread; the Philippines made hoard...
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) consists of 10 member countries, namely Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, and Laos. ASEAN has, by and large, been an open and outward looking region. External trade and ...