Latin America: eight million more people at risk of food insecurity
A person digging through one of the largest landfills in Latin America in Lixao da Estrutural, Brazil (illustrative image).
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Latin America and the Caribbean are not spared from the impact of the various global crises affecting the economy.
Result: eight million more people in the region are at risk of food insecurity due to inflation and slowing economic growth,
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This new assessment by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), brings to more than 86 million the number of inhabitants of the region threatened by food insecurity.
And again, this figure may be underestimated by ECLAC's own admission.
Its report takes only inflation and growth into account.
Women, “
hardest hit
”
If we add to this "
that women are hit much harder, then the situation of informal jobs and the fact that there are no resources to improve the social situation
", then "
the quantified impact could to be even bigger
.
Inflation is hitting hard: prices are expected to rise by more than 8% this year after an already substantial increase last year.
On the contrary, growth should fall back to 1.8%.
Sharp increase in poverty since 2018
Data on poverty have also been updated.
It has risen sharply since 2018. Under the combined effect of tensions between China and the United States in 2019, then the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, the extreme poverty rate has risen from around 10, 5% to nearly 15%.
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October 17, 2021
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