A COUPLE of weeks ago, I attended a forum where Dr. Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa, director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, made a presentation on the nutritional status of Filipinos.

I have been writing, for some time now, on nutritional issues and their inextricable link to persistently high food prices in the Philippines compared to other Asean countries. High food prices and inflation have been a scourge for millions of consumers because of flawed agriculture and food policies by successive political administrations.