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URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/barangaystoninocommunity/permalink/4218779948187004/

Title: KILOS KABATAAN PARA SA KALUSUGAN

Author:
Noel Andamon
SK

Date: August 11, 2021

Key Content: This is in support with the Health Program of the Sangguniang Kabataan of Barangay Sto. Niño "Kilos Kabataan para sa Kabataan". Thus, making it relevant to our topic. (Mindanao)

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URL: https://youtu.be/mivnqVqgieE?feature=shared

Title: Agroecology - the next evolution in food systems

Author: IPES-Food

Date: 2020

Key Contents: IPES-Food is promoting Agroecology for us to invest in a sustainable way of growing food which does not only help aid malnutrition in children but as a whole. This is relevant because agriculture is one of the major solutions for SDG2 and for us to utilize our land in Mindanao for something that is beneficial.

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Agroecology - the next evolution in food systems

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URL:
http://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/3/29/marcos-malnutrition-problem.html

Title: Marcos: Gov’t prioritizing ‘grave’ malnutrition problem in PH

Author: CNN Philippines

Date:
Mar 29, 2023

Key Content:
President Marcos Jr. explained how malnutrition is a big problem in the country and promised to prioritize it. This is relevant to our SDG and Research Topic because the involvement of the government can create a huge impact in achieving our goals.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 29) - President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said his administration is serious in addressing the "grave" problem of malnutrition, as it launched a project that aims to reduce the number of stunted children by as much as 8% in three years' time.

Speaking at the launch of the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) funded by the World Bank, Marcos said hunger and food inadequacy continue to be of "paramount" national concern.

"We are talking the bull by the horns," he said. "In fact, I have made it my own personal mission to address these fundamental problems as I take on the role of Secretary of Agriculture just to make sure that a proper focus is given to that particular challenge."

In 2021, the World Bank released a report saying there were almost no improvements in the prevalence of undernutrition in the Philippines in nearly 30 years.

It also noted that one in three Filipino children under five years old suffered from stunting, which means they are small in size for their age.

Marcos explained that the PMNP will help local government units (LGUs) most in need of intervention by delivering primary health support and nutrition services, including early childhood care and development, access to clean water and sanitation, technical information, training and financing.

In an interview with reporters after the event, Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said 235 municipalities will be covered by the project.

She added that LGUs will be incentivized through performance-based grants, which local officials may access only if they reach "targeted outcomes" set by the national government.

"Nagawa na rin ito ng World Bank katulong ng ibang gobyerno sa ibang bansa, and ang kanilang naging outcome doon ay nakapag-reduce sila by as much as 8% of stunted children doon sa mga bansang naisakatuparan na ito," Vergeire said. "So, hopefully, we also get to have that kind of outcome."

[Translation: This project has already been launched in other countries with the help of the World Bank, and the outcome was that they were able to reduce the number of stunted children by as much as 8% in those nations. So, hopefully, we also get to have that kind of outcome.]

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Marcos: Gov't prioritizing 'grave' malnutrition problem in PH

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says his administration is serious in addressing the 'grave' problem of malnutrition, as it launched a project that aims to reduce the number of stunted children by as much as 8% in three years' time.

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Url: https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1827857/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/ravanera-rectifying-social-wrongs-harnessing-collective-power-1st-of-2-parts

Title: Rectifying social wrongs harnessing collective power

Author: Orlan Ravenera/SunStar CDO

Date: Oct. 16, 2019

Key Content: To raise and empower awareness of the need for social transformation in Mindanao. Mindanao is called the "food basket, " yet many children suffer a high degree of Malnutrition.

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IT IS an established truism that our country is oozing with ecological wealth especially in resource-rich Mindanao based on the study of Dr. Kent Carpenter of the United Nations' Food & Agricultural Organization (UN-FAO). In that study, the Philippines is the richest with regards to biodiversity.

Don't you know that in the 5,000-hectare forest ecosystem of Mt. Kitanglad, the number of flora and fauna is far greater compared to those found in the one billion-hectare continent of North America? Mr. Larry Heaney, an environmentalist from California, USA, did conduct a study there sometime in the 80s and was so amazed to observe monkey-eating eagles flying above while the smallest monkeys in the world called Tarsiers are jumping from one branch to another.

There could be no wonderful sites on earth than the blooming of nature, manifesting the magnificence of the invisible and formless Supreme Force Being called God! The urban centers are the opposites as such are the manifestation of egoic and diabolic mind.

But the wealth of the country is not just confined above the ground; beneath are some 72 kinds of minerals, i.e., gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, silicon and so on including black sands. No doubt, that "paradise" on earth doesn't stop at the shorelines. The Philippine Archipelago is even more amazing as it has been described by the UN-FAO as "the center of the center of marine life on earth."

Amidst plenty lies so much poverty - a glaring paradox especially in the "land of the brave and the free" - Mindanao. Based on the Study of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), of the 25 poorest provinces in the country, 14 are in Mindanao as the poor in Mindanao are the poorest. While it is called the "food basket" of the country, yet according to Food and Nutrition Institute, it is where you find the high degree of malnutrition among the children (28% malnourished, 27% underweight, and 30% stunted).

What a glaring paradox in a land showcasing some 200,000 hectares of plantations with high value crops that are supplying the consumerist lifestyle of the people in the North while we cannot even supply the country's basic staples such as rice and milk.

Development experts and social scientists are puzzled no end. It is their conclusion that the root cause of poverty is not the lack of resources but the POWERLESSNESS of the people to have access and control over these resources which as fast slipping through their fingers.

We must now reflect on these painful realities by asking three basic questions: OF THE COUNTRIES WEALTH, WHO CONTROLS? WHO DECIDES? WHO BENEFITS?

Social transformation is now the call of the times. Indeed, for those who have dreamt, struggled, sacrificed and even died for it, social change has been so elusive all these years despite 14 years of martial law and two-people powered revolutions.

The structures and systems that perpetuate social injustice and poverty are still as formidable as ever. However, under the present dispensation, change is now in the offing as it's the mindset of the present leadership to empower the poor and the vulnerable to rectify the dysfunctions of the present economic paradigm.

Poverty is indeed rooted in the powerlessness of the people and as our counter measure, they must be empowered to the drawn into the mainstream of development processes. Empowering the poor and the vulnerable makes it imperative to harness their collective power through cooperativism! This is true in the life of the peasantry who has been producing food but their dining tables fall short of it as they are tilling the land not their own, or if they own the land, they do not control the mode of production and marketing. The more than 2,000 cooperatives of the agrarian reform beneficiaries do own the land now as agrarian reform and cooperativism are two sides of the same coin - both are social justice measures. Through their respective cooperatives, the poor farmers have shifted from conventional to sustainable agriculture and are now into value-change operations, aptly claiming control over the mode of production and marketing, unfettered from usurers and compradors.

To rectify the greatest social injustice committed against the eleven (11) million member-consumer-owners of so-called Electric Cooperatives, this critical mass of some 55 million Filipinos are now being conscienticized as no less than the Supreme Court had ruled in the 2003 that the ECs are not cooperatives even if they used "cooperative" as a nomenclature, a criminal offense then as provided for in RA 6938 (Cooperative Code of the Philippines). But such was deleted in RA 9520.

Even that provision that says that the CDA is the sole registering agency of all types of cooperatives is now nowhere to be found in the law that is geared towards strengthening CDA. Is the unseen hand of the Cartel at play? Are you an EC and you want to cooperativize? Beware, the case of DANECO speaks well for itself as nine advocates had already been murdered as additional two have just been killed recently.

No problem as time heals all wounds which will be rectified by Cooperativism! This is a truism that is now reverberating not only in the Philippines but through-out the world. No less than the United Nations has seen the imperative of debunking the present economic paradigm that is only successful in benefitting only one percent of the world's population. In fact, the combined wealth of eight richest families in the United States totals the combined assets of 3.6 billion people on earth. While 821 million people are hungry, the United States has produced a kind of cake that is worth $72,000.

Amidst these paradoxical realities looms the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals - i.e., stop hunger, stop poverty, stop gross inequities, stop social injustices, protect the eco-systems, promote peace, etc. We are happy to note that all of these SDGs are lumped into one theme which is "Transformative Cooperatives for People, Planet, Prosperity and Peace!" (to be continued)

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Ravanera: Rectifying social wrongs harnessing collective power (1st of 2 Parts)

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IT IS an established truism that our country is oozing with ecological wealth especially in resource-rich Mindanao based on the study of Dr. Kent Carpenter of the United Nations'...

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URL: https://www.unicef.org/philippines/stories/working-together-end-severe-malnutrition-bangsamoro-children

Title: Working together to end severe malnutrition in Bangsamoro children

Author: UNICEF Philippines

Date Published: March 25, 2021

Key Content:

This is about:

In the Bangsamoro region, half of the children suffer from malnutrition, a problem exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic due to limited access to health and nutrition services, job losses, and reduced income for impoverished families. Normina, a mother, faced a challenging situation when her 9-month-old daughter Norhata fell sick. Seeking help at a rural health center, they discovered Norhata had severe acute malnutrition (SAM), a grave issue in the region due to its remoteness and poverty. Normina's family lives in a remote area, and her children had never received vaccinations or health check-ups. Norhata and her twin sister were underweight and only receiving sugared water, which highlighted the pressing need for improved nutrition services in the area.

This will serve as an evidence for our research topic.

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Saida, 27, easily recognized the symptoms of SAM and gave them supplemental food and vitamins. She also encouraged the mother to give Norhata bigger meal portions, difficult advice to follow given the family's meager income.

"Malnutrition is common in our town especially among families with many children. Food is scarce so when babies start eating solid food, they are given small portions compared to the rest of the family," she said, adding that dietary diversity is poor and mothers often could not breastfeed because they themselves are malnourished or too busy working the farm with their husbands.

Saida knows the risks of SAM all too well. When left untreated, severely malnourished children are more prone to diseases. In her 11 years as a volunteer, she's seen them suffer from health complications, stunted growth, and even death. When the family missed their weekly visit to the center, she got worried and visited their home to check on their situation.

Allies in full recovery

Saida worked with the family to improve the nutrition of the twins and their older siblings. But starting a vegetable garden to supplement the family's meals, and the vitamins provided by Saida were not enough. The twin's progress was excruciatingly slow.

But help came just in time for the twins. UNICEF, in coordination with the Health Organization for Mindanao, delivered boxes of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to their health center. These supplies - for 20 rural health units in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao provinces - are part of the COVID-19 response in BARMM supported by the Government of the United Kingdom and UNICEF Philippines. Under this partnership, some 90,000 children under 5 have been screened for SAM since October 2020. Furthermore, over 29,000 pregnant, lactating women and caregivers are being reached with messages about proper infant and young child feeding.

Nutrition workers assess the nutrition status of the children by measuring the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) or checking the weight-for-height/weight-for-length of infants and children aged 6-59 months old. Depending on the severity of malnutrition, they provide RUTF to the children and help them recover in six to eight weeks. Moreover, nutrition workers provide information to mothers and caregivers on the causes of malnutrition and how to prevent it.

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Working together to end severe malnutrition in Bangsamoro children

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One in every two children in the Bangsamoro region is malnourished. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation worse.

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URL: https://youtu.be/4ovg47C4674

Title: One Mindanao: Kontra Malnutrition

Author:  GMA Regional TV

Published Date: January 27, 2023

Key Contents:
This is mainly about the topic: "In January 2022, there were reported 104 severe acute malnutrition cases; at the end of the year, December 2022, the cases decreased to 52. Nutrition Center in Brgy. Vicente Hizon Sr., Davao City, was opened to strengthen and improve the campaign against malnutrition and focus on the children's nutrition", which is relevant to our topic because it serves as additional statistics.

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URL: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121824/malnutrition-cases-northern-mindanao-region-by-province-philippines/

Title: Number of deaths caused by malnutrition in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines in 2020, by location

Author:  Statista Research Department

Date: Published on January 18, 2023 (Stats from 2020)

Key Content: This is relevant for it holds the statistics/proof from 2020 wherein Iligan was recorded the highest incidence of malnutrition-related deaths within the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines, comprising 63 out of the total 283 deaths in the entire region: also our focus.

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URL: https://globalnutritionreport.org/50bff8

Title: The Burden of Malnutrition

Author: Global Nutrition Report

Date: N/A

Key Content: This is relevant to our topic because it tackles the burden of malnutrition, issues in need of critical attention, and how to address it as a community, specifically in Northern Mindanao.

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URL: https://youtu.be/JhTJm1p64Kg?feature=shared

Title: One Mindanao: Nutrition Month sa NorthMin

Author: GMA Regional TV

Date: Jul 6, 2021

Key content: This is relevant because it is about the cities in Northern Mindanao celebrating and honoring Nutrition Month which is a way of educating people and advocating SDG#2.

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One Mindanao: Nutrition Month sa NorthMin

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URL: https://youtu.be/P9gwvRq_r3A

Title: G7 Leaders: Act Now on the Global Child Hunger and Nutrition Crisis

Author: UNICEF

Date: 2022

Key Content: To save lives, our Executive Director Catherine Russell is calling on #G7 leaders to provide urgent funds for the prevention and treatment of child hunger and malnutrition. This is what our Research Topic focuses on.

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G7 Leaders: Act Now on the Global Child Hunger and Nutrition Crisis

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URL: https://spotify.link/a/key_live_pfaVQo61xda7Zq1zC1ca3igayxarnljw?product=open&%24full_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F4fSbGy9QgbOOrHSuKulmrr%3Fsi%3Dlx_vAJP5QKSW_K-4T1eYyg&%24fallback_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F4fSbGy9QgbOOrHSuKulmrr%3Fsi%3Dlx_vAJP5QKSW_K-4T1eYyg%26nd%3D1&feature=organic

Title: What is malnutrition?

Author: Do you really know? podcast

Date Published: 7 October 2020

Key Content:

This is linked with our research because it is about:
Malnutrition, which affects one in nine and one in three individuals worldwide, is to blame for rapid weight loss, stunted development, and non-communicable illnesses. By 2050, the UN estimates that it would impact 2 billion people, killing over 9 million people yearly.

(can be used as evidence /supporting detail)

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Listen to this episode from Do you really know? on Spotify. What is malnutrition? Thanks for asking! World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16th, commemorating the date on which the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization was created in 1945. Let's take the opportunity to talk about malnutrition.

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URL:  https://nnc.gov.ph/regional-offices/mindanao/region-x-northern-mindanao/7034-2021-opt-plus-results-normin-malnutrition-prevalence-decreases

Title: 2021 OPT Plus Results: NorMin malnutrition prevalence decreases

Author: National Nutrition Council

Date: 09 February 2022

Key Content: This is related to our topic as it serve as a proof that the government is taking action which led to the the decrease of deaths caused by malnutrition in Northern Mindanao.

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2021 OPT Plus Results: NorMin malnutrition prevalence decreases

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08 February 2021, Cagayan de Oro City – According to the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, malnutrition remains a threat globally. It remains severe and had slow progress has been made in achieving world targets.

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URL:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=657382599756408&set=a.225743026253703&type=3&locale=tl_PH&paipv=0&eav=AfZ2w71ZPWmvQym609MtMNUClIaO3ROdDJKs72LQaP5RjIIhxlkidBud1xO6_1xorio&_rdr

Title:  Food Fortification For Your Information

Author: City Nutrition Committee - Cagayan de Oro City

Date: August 7

Key Content:
A brief overview of food nutrition and its benefits. This includes an overview of the foods labeled to be rich in vitamin A, Iron, and Iodine which is relevant to help promote SDG#2: Zero Hunger via educating people.

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLdNtrLDzQ&t=26s

TITLE:
Malnutrition in the Bangsamoro Region

AUTHOR:
UNICEF Philippines

Date:
Published on November 14, 2019

KEY CONTENT:

This is crucial because it talks about the stunting and malnutrition pose a health and economic burden in the Bangsamoro region, where 1 in 2 children under 5 years old are stunted which is related with our research topic.

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBofw_CfeiM&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Title: Malnutrition

Author: TedX Talks

Date: Jun 14, 2016

Key Content:
This is relevant because this ted talk explains on what malnutrition is, its causes and its effects. Primarily raising awareness to the primary reason of children's death which can be malnutrition.

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URL: https://www.nvcfoundation-ph.org/visayan-daily-star-capitol-releases-p4-9m-to-fight-malnutrition/

Title: National survey: We have many malnourished children

Author: DAVID LOZADA

Date: July 12, 2013

Key Contents: This is about how 4.9m was released to fight malnutrition which is a relevant issue for our research, because where did that money go? Did malnutrition decrease years later? Did the funds reach the slums of North Mindanao?

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URL:
https://www.amazon.com/Within-Our-Grasp-Malnutrition-Revolution/dp/1524747246

TITLE:
Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It

AUTHOR:
Sharman Apt Russell

Date:
Published: April 6, 2021

KEY CONTENT:

This is important to our research for it is about how a healthy Earth requires healthy children. An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it.

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Febe Omblero

URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352076870_PREVALENCE_RATE_OF_MALNUTRITION_ON_CHILDREN_AGES_0-59_MONTHS_OLD_IN_LANTAWAN_BASILAN_PHILIPPINES

TITLE:
PREVALENCE RATE OF MALNUTRITION ON CHILDREN AGES 0-59 MONTHS OLD IN LANTAWAN, BASILAN, PHILIPPINES

AUTHOR:
Luz Nielyne Villafranca
Mae Bonica
Jhake Genandoy
Gabriel Tignah
Rod Urban Jalar
Roderick Velasco
Romenick Molina

DATE:
JUNE 2021

KEY CONTENT:

This research is about how malnutrition is one of the health  issues revolving  around the  world. In the Municipality  of Lantawan,  Basilan, Philippines, malnutrition among children aged  0-59 months were registered. With this, the researchers aimed  to determine the prevalence rate of malnutrition in Lantawan using the available secondary data from the Municipal Health Office.

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Maxxime Jamago

URL: https://aboutcagayandeoro.com/fnri-northmin-malnutrition/

Title:  MALNUTRITION AFFECTS ONE IN FIVE CHILDREN IN NORTHMIN

Author: CADEO

Date: 2015

Key content: According to the Food and Nutrition Research Insititute (FNRI), one of every five children who are less than five years old in Northern Mindanao have been noted to be underweight or suffering from malnutrition in the year 2015.

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URL: https://imtf.org/malnutrition-kills-can-we-see-the-writing-on-the-wall/malnutrition-kills/

Title: Malnutrition Kills!

Author: Dr. Akhbar

Date: March 15, 2016

Key Content: This poster is about how Malnutrition Kills which is linked to our researched topic. The date in which this was made goes to tell that malnutrition has been taking lives for more than a decade yet it still persists. This is an issue that SDG 2 has been facing yet is still undefeatable. Thus, it is our turn to try and win against it.

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URL: https://www.unicef.org/philippines/child-survival#:~:text=Every%20day%2C%2095%20children%20in,permanent%2C%20irreversible%20and%20even%20fatal.

Title: Child survival: Helping children survive and thrive

Author: UNICEF.ORG
Date: 2014

Key Content: This articles is crucial because it is informing us how every day, 95 children in the Philippines die from malnutrition. Twenty-seven out of 1,000 Filipino children do not get past their fifth birthday. A third of Filipino children are stunted, or short for their age. Stunting after 2 years of age can be permanent, irreversible and even fatal. In addition, this is a general information wherein it does not only affect Mindanao but the entire country as well.