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Hunger has been linked to the spread of pagpag food and the food crisis in 2008 was said to be the cause in the rise of poverty in the Philippines. [14] The National Statistical Coordination Board recommended the administration of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to reduce poverty. [14]
In a city with a population of about 450,000 while under German occupation, there was a famine starting in the winter of 1941–42 that lasted until the end of September 1942. The local administration recorded 19,284 deaths between the second half of December 1941 and the second half of September 1942, thereof 11,918 (59.6%) from hunger. [136]
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool that attempts to measure and track hunger globally as well as by region and by country, prepared by European NGOs of Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. [1] The GHI is calculated annually, and its results appear in a report issued in October each year.
This Act converted Bataan Export Processing Zone/Bataan Economic Zone (BEPZ/BEZ), the first official economic zone in the Philippines located in Mariveles, Bataan, into Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB), and created Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) which started the eight-month transition period of the zone's operations and ...
[1] [2] The Philippines may quarantine travelers arriving from Mexico with fever. [3] Also, the importation of hogs from the U.S. and Mexico was banned, [4] and the restriction of swine influenza vaccine use was retracted. First death was reported on June 19, 2009, a 49-year-old female Filipino employee of the Congress, as well as the first ...
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The 2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines began on May 21, 2009, when a young Filipina girl first contracted the A(H1N1) virus while in the United States.In the following days, several local cases were reported to be caused by contact with two infected Taiwanese women who attended a wedding ceremony in Zambales.
He called on "people of goodwill everywhere" to join him in a worldwide hunger strike this weekend. [8] FAO on Monday 16 November 2009, said that agreeing a climate change deal in Copenhagen at the COP15 ( 7–18 December 2009) is crucial to fighting global hunger, which Brazil's president described as "the most devastating weapon of mass ...