Billions to be freed to minimize famine

As an answer to the increasing famine reported in the surveys, billions will be freed by the government to fund the food programs.

According to the National Nutrition Council (NNC), on program to solve the hunger is the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP) that will be implemented to places with high rates of famine.

In the 2008 Social Weather Station (SWS) survey, there are 4.3 M households or 23.7 % households in total experience hunger. There are 81 provinces in the country , 49 of these are still not secured in terms of food. (rachiu/PIA)

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