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Groups seek public's help in ending hunger, malnourishment in PH

Jasmin Romero and Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 21 12:01 AM

Members of Pilipinas Kontra Gutom, a movement that seeks to address involuntary hunger in the country, have called on the public to help in their mission to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among Filipinos. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 14, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 14 11:50 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Surviving the pandemic

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 14 05:18 PM

A vendor offers bottled water while passengers wait at a bus terminal along Zapote Road in Las Pinas City on Wednesday. Read more »

4.2 million Filipinos went hungry in last 3 months: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 13 12:02 PM

Around 4.2 million Filipino families experienced hunger due to lack of food at least once in the past 3 months, according to an opinion poll that the Social Weather Stations released on Monday.  Read more »

Hunger, drought, disease: UN climate report reveals dire health threats

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 23 12:54 PM

Hunger, drought and disease will afflict tens of millions more people within decades, according to a draft UN assessment that lays bare the dire human health consequences of a warming planet.   Read more »

1 sa 3 batang Pinoy edad 5 pababa kulang sa nutrisyon: pag-aaral

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 16 08:59 PM

Ayon sa National Nutrition Council, tumaas din ang bilang ng mga pamilyang Pilipino na nakaranas ng gutom noong nakaraang taon, epekto ng pandemya.  Read more »

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises last year

Maytaal Angel, Reuters
Posted at May 05 06:47 PM

LONDON - Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again grim, according to a report by the Global Network Against Food Crises.   Read more »

Palace admits more must be done to curb hunger

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 30 04:48 PM

Malacañang admitted on Friday that more should be done hunger that COVID-19 lockdowns caused.    Read more »

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny ending 24-day hunger strike

Anastasia Clark, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 24 05:23 AM

The Kremlin critic said Friday he was ending a hunger strike he launched to demand medical treatment behind bars after allies said his life was in danger. Read more »

'Kailangan natin magtulungan': Gov't welcomes opening of community pantries

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 19 10:15 AM

The Philippine government welcomed Monday the opening of publicly initiated community pantries nationwide to help those less fortunate who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

In food-rich Brazil, people go hungry as pandemic rages

Rodrigo Almonacid, with Eugenia Logiuratto in Rio de Janeiro, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 31 08:20 AM

SAO PAULO - The lines of homeless and other needy people waiting for free meals in the streets of Brazil are growing longer as the Covid-19 pandemic rages out of control. Read more »

Manila to distribute food boxes to barangays under lockdown

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 10 04:22 PM

MANILA - The local government of Manila is set to begin Wednesday the distribution of food boxes for 2 barangays and 2 hotels that were placed under lockdown due to the uptick of COVID-19 cases in the capital city. Read more »

Investment banker turned organic farmer fights hunger in rural PH

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at Mar 08 11:12 AM

Today, on International Women’s Day, let me turn the spotlight on New York banking community’s loss which became Capiz’s farming livelihood gain. Read more »

Nearly a 5th of all food reaching consumers wasted, says UN

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 04:49 AM

Almost 1 billion tonnes of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019 was thrown away, far more than previously suspected, the UN said Thursday. Read more »

First full moon of the new lunar year of the Ox

Gigie Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 01 07:39 AM

A full moon rises at Mt Malepunyo as seen from Lipa, Batangas in this photo taken last February 27, 2021.  Read more »

3 million students benefitted from school feeding program in 2020: DepEd

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 05:55 PM

More than 3 million students from kindergarten to sixth grade received food and milk under the government’s school-based feeding program in 2020, which was implemented despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Education said Monday.   Read more »

Global food inflation fears grow as UN index hits 6.5-year high

Crispian Balmer, Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 07:28 PM

Global food prices rose for an eighth consecutive month in January to their highest since July 2014, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, as economies continue to battle fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

'Paano sila na walang handa?': Bakery gives out food packs to the homeless on Christmas

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 31 03:04 AM

“The secret to happiness is helping others.”    Read more »

'Things are looking up,' Palace tells Filipinos who say life got worse

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 05:42 PM

"Things are looking up," Malacañang said on Wednesday as it sought to boost public optimism, after an opinion poll revealed that 3 in 5 Filipinos their quality of life worsened this year, during which the COVID-19 pandemic left businesses struggling and millions without job.  Read more »

SWS: 3 in 5 adult Filipinos say quality of life got worse in 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 23 07:21 PM

Three out of 5 or 62 percent of adult Filipinos said that quality of life got worse this year, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Monday.   Read more »