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Weathering The Crises, Feeding The Future: Philippine Food Justice Report by Oxfam is a document available to read on EtoBox.

At the height of the food price crisis in 2008, the Philippines was among the countries with ‘severe localized food insecurity’, requiring external assistance in food. A series of severe weather-related events in 2009 damaged the economy, costing more than twice the national budget for agriculture that year. In 2010, rice imports reached an all-time high, making the Philippines the biggest rice importing country in the world that year. There are 94 million Filipinos today – 4 million more than in 2008. T

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Oxfam

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