To help address malnutrition that is affecting about 15 million to 26 million Filipinos, an international conference on nutrition-sensitive agriculture will be held in the Philippines to help boost vitamins and minerals-rich food production.
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), in a tie-up with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will host the forum Strategic Approaches to Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture and Food Systems in Southeast Asia on November 7-10 at the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) in Tagaytay City, Cavite.
Based on SEARCA’s nutrition-sensitive agriculture study, the Philippines food security ranking globally shrunk from rank 62 in 2011 to 72 in 2017 out of 109 countries.
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