16 Januari 2024

WFP STUDY ON IRON RICE FORTIFICATION CAPACITIES, SUPPLY CHAIN, AND CAMPAIGNINITIATIVES IN THE PHILIPPINES

June 2022 Executive Summary Introduction. The Philippines has been implementing mandatory rice fortification with iron with the passage of Republic Act (RA) 8976 or the Philippine Food Fortification Act on 7 November 2000 with full implementation in 2004. In 2005, the Food for School Program (FSP) of the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program used iron fortified …

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A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: IMPLEMENTING IRON-FORTIFIED RICE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Food and nutrition security in the Philippines, which has generally been improving in recent decades, worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Food Security Index 2022 ranked the Philippines sixty-seventh out of 112 countries, citing the Philippines’ limited availability of nutritious food and unsustainable production methods, among other concerns. Nearly 27 per cent of children under five …

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