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dc.date.accessioned2021
dc.date.available2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationFAO, IFAD, PAHO, WFP and UNICEF. 2021. Latin America and the Caribbean – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021: Statistics and trends. Santiago, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7497enen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/55213
dc.description.abstractFood is central to people's development throughout their lives. Hunger and poverty impede the enjoyment of this fundamental right. In recent years, various factors have diverted the world off the path to eradicating hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this trend. Our region is no exception. This edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021: Statistics and Trends reveals a bleak scenario for the future. In 2020, 59.7 million people in our region suffered from hunger, and between 2019 and 2020 the prevalence of hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 2 percentage points. The increases in moderate or severe food insecurity from 2019 to 2020 were even steeper than the increase in hunger at 9 percentage points. Forty-one percent of the regional population is moderately or severely food insecure: that is 267 million people whose human right to food is not being met. In the Region, one in four adults suffer from obesity. Childhood overweight has been increasing over the last 20 years and is above the world average: it affected 7.5 percent of children under five in 2020. Overweight and obesity have a significant economic, social and health impact on countries because of reduced productivity and increased disability, premature mortality, and medical care and treatment costs. If we do not make rapid and thorough changes, the countries of the region will fail to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” and SDG 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” These trends will not be reversed if we do not transform our agri-food systems to make them efficient, resilient, inclusive and sustainable enough to provide a healthy diet for everyone, leaving no one behind. That was the aim of the Food Systems Summit, convened by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, which brought together 23 Member States from Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss how they could bring about a transformation that would benefit the most vulnerable communities. The five United Nations agencies behind this publication want to contribute to this transformation by measuring and monitoring food and nutrition security indicators to promote the formulation and implementation of evidence-based policies. This publication contributes to the policy dialogue for post-pandemic recovery, which is fundamental to closing gaps in equality and to meeting the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPAHOen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO*
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dc.subjectSustainable Developmenten_US
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goalsen_US
dc.subjectMillennium Development Goalsen_US
dc.subjectFooden_US
dc.subjectFood Securityen_US
dc.subjectNutrition Programsen_US
dc.subjectDiet, Food, and Nutritionen_US
dc.subjectMalnutritionen_US
dc.subjectHungeren_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.titleLatin America and the Caribbean Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021: Statistics and Trendsen_US
dc.typeTechnical reportsen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US
dc.contributor.corporatenamePan American Health Organizationen_US
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paho.publisher.countryChileen_US
paho.publisher.citySantiagoen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4060/cb7497en
paho.source.centercodeUS1.1en_US
paho.relation.languageVersion10665.2/55239
paho.contributor.departmentNoncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)en_US
paho.iswhotranslationNoen_US


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