COVID-19 and Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean

The objective was to determine the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary analysis was performed using the waves 1 to 3 of the 2020 COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys in 13 LAC countries. The countries with the...

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Autores: Hernández-Vásquez, Akram, Visconti-Lopez, Fabriccio J., Chacón-Torrico, Horacio, Azañedo, Diego
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Repositorio:UPC-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/660267
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2086023
http://hdl.handle.net/10757/660267
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:COVID-19
Food insecurity
Latin America
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00
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Sumario:The objective was to determine the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary analysis was performed using the waves 1 to 3 of the 2020 COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys in 13 LAC countries. The countries with the highest FI in the first wave were Honduras (60.3%), Peru (58.1%) and Ecuador (57.9%). Likewise, the countries with the greatest differences in the prevalence of FI between the first and last waves in percentage points (PP) were Peru (−29), Guatemala (−27.7) and Bolivia (−21.8). LAC countries face a great burden of FI.