The deputy director general and representative for Latin America of the FAO, Mario Lubetkin, said in an interview with EFE that governments and heads of state, regardless of their political color, have to take charge of the food security agenda because “Hunger is not from the right or the left, it is hunger”. “Food security […]
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FAO: hunger grows in Latin America and may increase further with new waves of coronavirus
One in ten people live with hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, a number that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and may grow even further with waves linked to new variants of the virus and low levels of vaccination, the FAO said. . In an interview with Reuters, the agency’s representative in Paraguay, Jorge […]
Hunger worsened in seven regions of Peru during the first year of the pandemic
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 […]
Syria: fear of acute famine
About a thousand trucks a month. They are the lifeline for millions of Syrians in the north of the civil war country. The semi-trailers bring food and medicine, which 3.4 million people there depend on. The UN World Food Program, which alone supplies 1.4 million people with food, warned of a catastrophe if deliveries are […]