
Food crisis (LETTERS FROM DAVAO by Jun Ledesma)
Photo courtesy: carnegieendowment.org Amidst the din that came on the heels of the dubious blankety-blank General Appropristion Budget and the precipitate impeachment of VP Sara Duterte is the looming food crisis that the country faces. Both the economic advisers and agriculture officials have raised the spectre of catastrophic shortage of food particularly rice supply. This…