During 2020, Global Hunger Index in Peru (IGH) reached 17 points, which represents a “critical state” not seen for seven years -16.7 points in 2014- reports the network Alliance 2015.
The report specifies that the coastal departments are those that have had a greater negative impact (they went from 11.4 points in 2019 to 18.2 points in 2020) than those of the sierra and jungle (17.6 in 2019 to 19.2 in 2020, and from 18.7 in 2019 to 15.9 points in 2020, respectively).
It is worth mentioning that, at a general level, Peru maintains its IGH within a moderate criterion, but they are Apurímac, Huancavelica, Ucayali, Loreto, Huánuco, Ayacucho and Cusco the regions that are in a serious situation, exceeding 20 points.
The grouping specifies that the transport restrictions generated the downward trend in the coast and the mountains, since a good part of the family economy is based on multiple activities, which implies large-scale labor displacements; while the result of the forest is explained by the Amazonian resilience and by the continuous commercialization of agro-industrial crops.
Finally, for 2021, they project in a scenario of mild impact, that the IGH 2021 will reach 16.1 points, a figure far from the one reached in 2019 with 15.7 points.
“In a scenario of moderate impact, the index will be at 16.6, a figure similar to that of 2014. And under a severe impact scenario, the IGH would be recorded at 16.8, that is, at a level very similar to that registered in the pandemic. ”Stated William Campbell, spokesperson for the Alliance 2015 network and director of Fundación Ayuda en Acción Peru.
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