After battling the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years now, the current  health crisis continues to amplify job and income losses of most middle and low income Filipinos. At the onset of the crisis, food supply chains were shackled, imposing restrictions on the movement of goods as well as people. These protection measures resulted to food price inflation, which was triggered due to energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

Among other factors that greatly affect the food    security in our country are are high cost of tansporting                  products to the market, presence of middleman, high  cost of farm inputs, absence of proper irrigation   facilities, not enough farm-to-market roads, high cost   of rice and lack of modern technology farming. These   factors highlighted the urgency to further boost the   Philippines’ food security both in rural and urban   areas.