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Aug 2023
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#8 | Pagpag: Food Poverty in the Philipp...

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Vocabulary:


Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover food from restaurants scavenged from dumps or other waste facilities.


A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.


A resident is a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis.


Being meticulous means showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.


Foolproof means incapable of going wrong or being misused.


Food poverty is the condition of not having access to sufficient food, or food of adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs.

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