Hunger

MANILA, Philippines – Tonight, as we go to bed, one in 8 people will sleep on an empty stomach. There are about 870 million people in the world who suffer from hunger due to food scarcity based on Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data.

HUNGER AMONG Filipino families fell to a one and a half-year low in December, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report, with an estimated one million households no longer having experienced lacking anything to eat.

As World Food Day on October 16 approaches, a human rights organization said the Philippines needs a comprehensive national food policy to end its high incidence of hunger. FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) Philippines said recent survey results showing hunger now stalks 21 percent of families is unacceptable.

ROME – One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations’ food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when high food prices sparked riots in several poor countries.

Despite all Malacañang’s spins and excuses, the administration’s own data showed a high level of poverty and hunger, with the incidence of involuntary hunger shown in the Cabinet’s anti-poverty cluster’s commissioned survey hitting a record-high 23.8 percent in March.

MANILA, Philippines – Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman downplayed yesterday the findings of the recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey which showed that hunger incidence in the country went up to 22.5 percent at the end of 2011.

MALACAÑANG on Tuesday announced that it has listed several programs that will directly solve hunger in the country. Deputy spokesman Abigail Valte said that results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey done in December showed that self-rated hunger was statistically identical to results of the September 2011 survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families that experienced hunger grew from about three million households in June to about 4.3 million in September, according to a survey released yesterday by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

Despite the vaunted cash transfer doleouts or the social welfare department’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) the pang of hunger among Filipino households was recorded at its highest since December 2009 with one in five households saying it experienced a day going by with nothing to eat, the results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS)…

The Aquino administration yesterday claimed that the marked improvement in the country’s self-rated hunger ratings is the best demonstration that the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program is working.

LET’S help the Palace with some numbers. Not impeachment votes in the Senate, Mala-cañang’s No. 1 worry, but something that really matters to ordinary Filipinos who are the avowed bosses of President Benigno Aquino 3rd: hunger and poverty figures.

When the new Social Weather Stations survey showed that more Filipinos were experiencing hunger and poverty under his administration, P-Noy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The nationwide survey that covered 1,200 respondents from March 4 to 7 showed that 20.5 percent of the families polled said they experienced hunger, and that 51 percent considered…

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos experienced “involuntary” hunger and considered themselves poor in the past three months, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed yesterday.

3M households lack food once in 3 months – SWS Some 3 million families, or 15.9 percent of the total in the Philippines, are experiencing hunger at least once in three months, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed.

MANILA, Philippines – While fewer Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger in the last three months, nearly half of them rated themselves “mahirap” or “poor,” a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.