Various women’s groups and progressives demand food for people, not profit during two protests in front of the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City recently.

National federation of peasant women Amihan said their protest “symbolizes the collective fight of the Filipino rural and peasant women “against Marcos systemic-wide corruption.”

“Asia is a chronically food-insecure and climate-vulnerable region, and food insecurity affects more women than men everywhere in the world,” they said.

This year in the Philippines, agricultural losses from Tropical Cyclones Crising, Dante, and Emong amounted to P2.34 billion, depleting the country’s food supply and raising food prices. Over 75,000 farmers and 72,000 hectares of farmland were affected, with the rice sector accounting for half the losses,” the groups added.

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