Sixth in a series on national concerns

Quick: What’s the biggest issue facing Filipinos now? If you answered Grace Poe’s citizenship or Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential plans, you probably don’t belong to the one in every eight families who suffered hunger in the last quarter. For most of those 13 million-plus souls, no concern is more pressing than putting food in their stomachs.

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