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Food Insecurity Crisis in the Philippines

Global food security is deteriorating, with significant challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts, and inflation hindering progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. The Philippines faces severe food insecurity, ranking third in Southeast Asia, with 44.1% of its population affected, despite having a Food Security Act in place. Effective nutrition is essential for health and economic development, yet the lack of systematic approaches continues to exacerbate food insecurity and its associated consequences.

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Food Insecurity Crisis in the Philippines

Global food security is deteriorating, with significant challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts, and inflation hindering progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. The Philippines faces severe food insecurity, ranking third in Southeast Asia, with 44.1% of its population affected, despite having a Food Security Act in place. Effective nutrition is essential for health and economic development, yet the lack of systematic approaches continues to exacerbate food insecurity and its associated consequences.

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Introduction

The current state of food security around the world is far from eradicating hunger and food
insecurity by 2030. As some countries are still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. Other
factors such as price inflations hinder the capacity of everyone to buy the essential requirements
for a human to consume a healthy food and create nutritional dietary practices (“The State of
Food Security and Nutrition in the World,” 2025).
Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-being, is far from achieving by 2030.
Due to the constraints such as economic recovery from Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts such as
Russia-Ukraine war, Israel-Palestine war, and inflations from every part of the world. Food
insecurity continues to persist despite plans from international communities and non-state actors.
Although there are food security plans such as The Zero Hunger Challenge of the United Nations
it is still unattainable due to the circumstances such as lack of systematic approach, complex
global situations, and the food insecurity (Sporchia et al., 2024b).
In relation to Good Health and Well-being, established network of food security is crucial in
achieving nutritional awareness. According to World Health Organization, nutrition is a critical
part of health and development of a human being, in this sense, nutrition plays a vital role in our
health condition, without proper nutrition, the human body will be vulnerable to diseases. A
healthy person can learn better and with adequate nutrition, people will be more productive and
can create opportunities. It also directly impacts human health conditions and economic
development of the state. Accessibility to food security can lead to stability and security; all
people should have access to food to function well. Food insecurity will continue to create
displacement of people, instability and ripple throughout countries, regions, and beyond (Food
Security – What It Means and Why It Matters | World Food Programme, 2025).
The Philippines is an agricultural country; its rich land can sustain the whole nation. The
resources of the Philippines are abundant, it provides rice, coconuts, and sugarcane as well
livestock. It also give jobs to the rural areas

According to IBON Foundation, the current state of the food security in the Philippine are
worsening. In the latest report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the
Philippines are among the countries in Southeast Asia, with being third highest incidence of
severe and moderate food insecurity about 44.1% of the population after Timor-Leste with 53.7%
and Cambodia with 50.5% of the population. This data translates into the Philippines having the
highest number of food insecurity incidence compared to other Southeast Asian countries. With
51 million of its population continue to suffer from insufficient access to food and nutrition;
despite having a Food Security Act of 2013, it still lacks action and the problem persists.

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