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A book chapter that appeared in the recently published book by the Australian National University on “Communicating Science” forever etched science communication or scicom products and services of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the country’s history and status of scicom.

The prevalence of stunting among children under five years old in the Philippines has greatly improved from 33.4% in 2015 to 30.3% in 2018. However, to meet the 2022 Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) target of 21.4% reduction in stunting and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target of zero malnutrition, a 2.2 and 2.5 percentage point decrease, respectively, in stunting per year have to be achieved.

Prospective technology adoptors in Region 4A or CALABARZON are the latest batch of participants of the Virtual Technology Commercialization of Enhanced Nutribun Forum conducted by the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) on September 8, 2020.