"What is not sufficient currently is the amount of assistance that is going into nutrition. That percentage is very, very small still, as an overall percentage of what we are seeing as ODA," IFAD associate vice president Jyotsna Puri said at the Asia and the Pacific Food Security Forum organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
She said data showed nutrition and health got the smallest share of the total ODA for food systems with a meager ninepercent share from 2018 to 2021.
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Ombudsman suspends Nueva Ecija governor
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Senate ratifies bill amending gov't procurement reform law
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