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Following the launch of the government’s National Food Policy by the Inter-agency Task Force on Zero Hunger last October, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles on Tuesday led the virtual launch of Pilipinas Kontra Gutom, a multisectoral movement involving the government, the academe, non-profit organizations, private corporations, and the public that seeks to address issues related to […]
The “Enhanced Nutribun” is literally “in the oven” of 76 technology adoptors registered by the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST–FNRI) as a result of the agency’s aggressive information drive and technology transfer training, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles reported early this week. Nutribun is a bread product used in elementary […]
The Philippine government has formalized its commitment to end hunger and malnutrition as it launched the National Food Policy (NFP), during the closing program of the week-long 2020 World Food Day (WFD) celebration recently. “We strongly endorse and commit to action the newly-launched National Food Policy under the authorship and leadership of Cabinet Secretary Karlo […]
Underscoring the importance of growing, sustaining, and nourishing together, Agriculture Secretary William Dar took note that the poor are the most vulnerable sector towards hunger and malnutrition, during the World Food Day (WFD) kick-off recently. “Even if food is available, but the resources to buy basic essentials are limited, it will be a problem,” Dar […]
The government’s Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) program had another successful launch on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, this time in Negros Occidental where Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said “the fight against poverty and hunger in the country is one of the key and urgent programs of the Duterte administration.” “In a short span […]
Government is in the process of calibrating the soon-to-be rolled out National Food Policy (NFP) in order to address reported rising cases of hunger, one of the expected adverse effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles revealed this on Monday in response to a mobile survey recently released by the Social […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, Chair of the Task Force on Zero Hunger, congratulated the attendees and participants of the “Kasapatan at Ugnayan ng Mamamayan sa Akmang Pagkain At Nutrisyon” or KUMAIN webinar series last September 16, 2020, stressing that “knowledge gained and partnerships made will go a long way in combatting hunger and poverty in […]
“The KUMAIN webinar series is one of the interventions of the Task Force on Zero Hunger and is meant to ensure coordination among stakeholders and partner agencies for the proper implementation of our various feeding programs.” This was the statement of Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles in a radio interview this week, where he detailed the […]
Region 10 will benefit from the implementation of the Duterte administration’s Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) initiative with the launching of the program in Cagayan de Oro City. “We just recently conducted a virtual Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Marketing Agreement (MA) Signing for EPAHP in Eastern Visayas and we now focus our […]
The Duterte administration’s Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) program had a successful launch in Region 8 last August 7, 2020 at the National Irrigation Administration’s Region VIII Training Center in Marasbas, Tacloban City, highlighted by a consultation and MOU signing ceremony between NIA, DepEd, DAR, BJMP, Irrigators ‘Associations (IAs), and Irrigators’ Service Cooperatives […]