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Hunger in the Philippines
Aug 18, 2015
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• is that painful sensation, or exhausted condition that one feels from want of food.
• also scarcity of food
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IN THEPHILIPPINES
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• Pope Benedict XVI, during a summit of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in November 2009 in Rome, referred to hunger as • “the most cruel and concrete sign
of poverty.”
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POVERTY• – Poor people do not have the resources like
land, tools or money which are needed to grow or buy food on a daily basis.
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*POVERTY TRAP• People living in poverty cannot afford nutritious
food for themselves and their families. This makes them weaker and less able to earn the money that would help them escape poverty and hunger.
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NATURAL DISASTERS • typhoons, floods, drought and other calamities
can lead to severe food insecurity among those who are affected
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RAPID POPULATION GROWTH • particularly in urban areas make it harder
for poor people to feed themselves.
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WAR• forces millions of people to flee their homes,
leading to hunger emergencies as the displaced find themselves without the means to feed themselves. The conflict in Syria is a recent example
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FOOD PRICES
• increasing food prices directly affect the people’s capacity to buy food
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LACK OF AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
• Lack of farm-to-market roads, post-harvest and irrigation facilities, and modern technology all affect food availability and access
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PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4PS) PROGRAM OF THE GOVERNMENT SAYING THE MOVE WILL BOLSTER THE ANTIPOVERTY INITIATIVE OF THE AQUINO ADMINISTRATION.
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• Agri-Pinoy is the overall strategic framework of the Department of Agriculture that guides the various services and programs of the DA from 2011-2016 and beyond.
• Agri-Pinoy has 4 guiding principles, namely:
• food security and self-sufficiency,
• sustainable agriculture and fisheries,
• natural resource management, and;
• local development.
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