New Measures on Food Insecurity Show Some Promise
A year after AQ’s special report on hunger, Latin America has seen small gains on one of the region’s most pressing challenges.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on China and Latin America A year ago AQ published a special report exploring a paradox in Latin America: Although the region produces and exports more agricultural products than ever before, it struggles to feed its own people. A year later, the news remains worrisome, tied as it is to structural, long-term causes. The food paradox persists, with food insecurity currently affecting 25.2% of the population, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). That is higher than a decade ago (in 2015 it was...
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