AT least six regions in the Philippines have a high prevalence of food insecurity "due to the unavailability of food and/or lack of resources to obtain food," the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) said on Thursday.

Director Imelda Agdeppa of the DoST-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) told the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon public forum on PTV-4 that the government has been implementing programs to at least minimize the problems in the countryside.

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