Food poverty is the inability to obtain healthy affordable food. In turn this relates to population poverty, due to the interplay of politics (corruption, political instability, violence) and economics (globalisation and free trade) - worse in the Philippines than any of its neighbours. We have food poverty in the UK, affecting less than 10% of the population, but diet-related ill-health is said to cost the NHS twice as much as smoking. I suspect household expenditure on healthy foods is more often than not involuntarily low in the Philippines. In the UK where we spend around 11% of our household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic drinks, it's more a case of voluntarily choosing to buy unhealthy foods. We've just been hearing of school meals being healthy and packed lunches not being healthy in this country. But the packed lunches with chocolate biscuits and fizzy drinks are what the kids want !Originally Posted by Arthur Little
Why IS that?... in a country so richly-endowed with natural resources, it seems
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