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                    [ArticleID] => 621043
                    [Title] => World's hungry population
                    [Summary] => 

The world is to mark World Food Day 2010 on Saturday, under the theme of "United against Hunger."

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-15 23:01:27 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 599394 [Title] => WOFEX ongoing until Aug. 7 [Summary] =>

The 10th World Food Expo (WOFEX) Manila is ongoing until Aug. 7 at the World Trade Center and SMX Convention Center.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 513657 [Title] => Not just dole outs [Summary] =>

We arrived here over the weekend under the weather, so to speak. I have runny nose and colds. It felt like we’re still in the Philippines because it’s been raining incessantly since we planed in.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230959 [Title] => RP seeks FAO support in talks with rich nations [Summary] => ROME, Italy –The Philippines wants the Food and Agriculture Organization Council (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) to flex its muscles and use its moral suasion in helping developing countries achieve their goal of correcting trade distortions perpetuated by richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180313 [Title] => More Filipinos are getting hungry, says FAO official [Summary] => STAR Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – The good news is that the proportion of hungry people to population in the Philippines has declined. The bad news is that the number of hungry Filipinos has increased.

So said Charles Riemenschnieder, Food and Agriculture Organization director for North Africa at a news conference Tuesday to launch FAO’s annual hunger report: "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002."
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 176726 [Title] => Editoryal - Maraming batang Pinoy ang malnourished [Summary] => NAKAAALARMA ang report ng World Food Summit na ginanap sa Rome kamakailan, may 8.5 milyong batang Pilipino ang malnourished. Ayon sa report, karamihan sa mga malnourished ay mga school children. [DatePublished] => 2002-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162997 [Title] => 15-M kids in RP malnourished — Villar [Summary] => More than 15 million Filipinos are malnourished because of lack of proper food, according to figures from the Congressional Oversight Committee on Food and Agricultural Modernization (COCAFAM).

Senate President Pro Tempore Manuel Villar Jr., chairman of the Senate committee on food and agriculture, said the country’s annual population growth which reached 2.36 percent has surpassed the 2.16 percent growth in agricultural production in the 1990s.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162401 [Title] => RP joins global campaign versus hunger, poverty [Summary] => The Philippines is joining other nations in the Asia-Pacific in a renewed global campaign against hunger and poverty to ensure world peace and to deprive extremist and terrorist movements from advancing their cause in the region and elsewhere in the world.

Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor made this statement in a speech he delivered at the 26th Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for the Asia-Pacific in Kathmandu, Nepal recently.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 132283 [Title] => Montemayor cites strategies to lick hunger [Summary] => BANGKOK – Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor proposed six strategies, including giving local communities greater control over their resources, to help reduce the world’s hungry population and raise farm productivity and incomes for the coming years.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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