Poverty
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report of 2009 estimates that from 50 million to 90 million people will slide to extreme poverty at less than $1.25 a day in 2009 because of the global economic crisis. Among them will be millions of Filipinos who will face hunger and deprivation due to unemployment and lower incomes.
To alleviate hunger, the government must initiate a sustained and massive food production drive, engaging provincial, municipal and barangay governments to provide for food sufficiency and reduce our dependence on food imports. It is known that we have many idle lands which remain uncultivated and which could be put to good use producing staple crops.
We have also inland water resources that could be harnessed to produce cultured fish, while our fishermen should be aided by the government to become more productive through technical and material aid. Livestock raising should also be intensified. We should mobilize all our God-given resources to save our people from hunger.
LOREN LEGARDA
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