In the Visayas region in the southern Philippines, the survey said that hunger rate dipped one point to 10.3 percent or 449,000 families from 11.3 percent or 484,000 families. In Luzon areas outside the nation's capital, it said the rate rose to 12.3 percent or 1.2 million families from ...
The Aboitiz Group has pledged support to the government’s anti-hunger campaign, seeking to address involuntary hunger and malnutrition in the country, one of the most pressing global problems compounded by the Coronavirus-19 pandemic. With its own social initiatives aligned with the United Nations ...
global food security A farm manager tends crops at an urban community farm in Quezon City, Philippines. The government-subsidized urban farm is intended to help mitigate hunger by making vegetables and seeds available to community members for their own food consumption or to grow their own food ...
As of 24 October, 2009, the typhoon's official death toll in the Philippines was set at 464 casualties. However, just days after the typhoon struck, a terrible earthquake in Indonesia resulted in over 1,000 more fatalities along with widespread destruction. Nu Skin® responded quickly thanks...
The overseas release for Wish is a staggered approach a la Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, with only 43% of the foreign marketplace going this week including major markets UK, Spain, Mexico, China, as well as India, Benelux, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. All in, $25M is ...
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...
This data bank can be well used broadly for community decision-making, prioritization of health problems, and the development, implementation, and evolution of community health improvement plans. So, health promotion covers a wide range of activities including individual, community, and populations for...
Several of the biggest Green Revolution successes of the past - India, Mexico, and the Philippines - achieved increases in grain production and exports. Nonetheless, hunger has persisted and the long-term productive capacity of the soil has been degraded. 8 A more equitable access to food - ...
Collaboration was a crucial part of the project's success. A global network of15 agricultural research centreswas created to localise crops that were bred in the US and Japan to countries like India and the Philippines. But perhaps most importantly, political will was brought to bear. Countries...
I began by exploring the emergence of the community pantry in the Philippines, which was prompted by the government's inadequate response to the plight of the hungry poor due to prolonged mandatory lockdown in the National Capital Region. I then turned to Emmanuel Levinas' concept of hunger as...