Latin America triples its food insecurity in 2020: the affected hamburger reaches 10 million people

Latin America triples its food insecurity to be reached in 2020 respecting the previous year and affecting 10 million people, situation that raises the alarms about the lack of social protection speeches in the region to improve the impact of the covid-19 pandemic.

Asi lo advirtió este martes la ONG Action against the House, for those “without solid protection speeches in the form of subsidies, the disease imposes a condition on hambers for women living in the informal economy, he loses his job or encounters foods that are more carious in the markets”.

Agreed with the information from the NGO presenting at a virtual conference, Latin America recorded last year the mayor increased the world food insecurity ratio, a scenario that evidence that the lack of protection reasons is “tending direct points between the covid-19 and the hamber”.

Specifically, the pandemic created 45 million new povertys in the region, which concentrates on having a third part of contagios in the world before moving less than 10% of the world population, and left to diez millions of people in a situation of food insecurity severa, which triples the 2019 figure when, according to United Nations, is 3.4 million.

CENTROAMÉRICA

The survey conducted by the NGO a 3,700 families of the rural communities of Corredor Seco Centroamericano, The area that is expanding from Nicaragua to Guatemala has revealed that at least 3.9 million people have serious food and quality deficiencies, and only one of these families has met with anyone to report to. .

In addition, the studio found a increase the number of intended recipients of food purchases, claiming to represent 80% of the family’s presumption.

“More than 70% of families are obliged to adopt survival strategies such as the sale of some of their positions, the solitude of the past and the old days has been enough for the high school”, details Miguel Ángel García, director of Centroamérica de Acción contra el Hambre.

The socio-economic precedents derived from the pandemic are summed up in the loss of victims provoked by Hurricane Eta e Iota que golpearon amplias zonas de Nicaragua, Guatemala y Honduras in November.

With all, García signaled the need to improve support programs, that “its the key element that in circumcisions as it can impede that millions of people suffer in misery”.

Pero la cobertura de the “essential social protection speeches” in Central America are “very rare”, then García concretely said that while 50% of the salvadoran families surveyed have some type of aid on the part of the State, the percentage in Guatemala Cayo is 30% and in Honduras, 14%.

PERÚ Y LAS OLLAS KOM BY

Off Peru, Action against the Hambre identified as 80% of those surveyed lost their jobs or reduced their income by 33%.

Agreed with America Arias, Directorate of the NGO in Peru, the Andean Country “One of the most socially affected” by the pandemic because “there is no need to sell the first oil” of contagios y, antes de llegada de covid-19, ya contaba con un 20% de su poblancion pober o muy pober.

Ahora, three quarters of the population are in a food insecurity situation, a reality that affects “Venezuelan families in particular” and that implies alternatives such as “reducing resources spent on education, health and recourse to all communities”.

These communal co-owners and self-employed persons in their majority may resume improvised forms such as one Emergency vecinal expression in the most vulnerable areas of Peru over the lack of food, labor and money.

Según Arias, solo Lima Metropolitana has ten registered registrations of 337 communes up to 1,300.

“They depend on the donations that have been reduced” in the last months, the director of Action Against the Hambre in Peru lamented, as well as the “preoccupying reduction of iron in the diet, something fundamental to combating anemia”.

COLOMBIA IN HACINAMIENTO

Colombia’s 34,000-hectare survey unveiled 80% of the families, in their Venezuelan majority, do not cover all of their basic food and living needs and 20% do not have a stable of established children.

Además, the statement of the director of Acción contra el Hambre en Colombia, John Orlando, 58% of those polled “declared living conditions: 2.5 people live in housing and in 13% of the cases almost five people in the dormitory have been identified ”.

Orlando reivindicó la entry of humanitarian assistance in money as one of the most effective solutions before this situation becomes an “alternative dignity that has the option to elect families over their urgent needs”.

“It also allows the most vulnerable people to formally belong to the local economy” and “humanitarian aid is recycled and forces the economies of the communities in which their families live”, urges it.

(With EFE information)

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