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Emergency feeding programs needed amid food inflation and rising child malnutrit

High food inflation at double-digit levels combined with economic slowdown and rising unemployment threatens to push millions of Filipino households below the poverty line, with children facing severe malnutrition and stunting that irreversibly limits their physical growth and brain development. The article highlights the urgent need for emergency feeding programs and commends the Philippine Food Bank Foundation's decade-long effort to rescue surplus food and distribute it to over 5 million Filipinos across major cities.