Many parents—usually mothers—are eating less to keep their children fed amid the rising prices of basic goods, the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) found.
Many parents—usually mothers—are eating less to keep their children fed amid the rising prices of basic goods, the Food and Nutrition Research Institute found.
Based on the FNRI's expanded nutrition survey conducted from November to December 2020, at least 62.1% of the households polled have experienced food insecurity or lack of food. “This is intra-household, so yung paano ba naghahati-hati kumbaga yung family sa pagkain. Nakita namin doon yung intake of pregnant women and mothers in general ay hindi kino-consider, kumbaga, sa pag-a-allocate ng food,” FNRI science research specialist Charina Javier said.
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