Due to the hurricanes and the pandemic, hunger soars in Central America (El Mercurio)

El Mercurio published an article about food systems, food security, and hunger & poverty in Latin America. Acute food insecurity in About 8 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, are going hungry in 2021, in a dilemma that has been fueled by extreme weather events and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the economy.  Senior Research Fellow and Head of the program for Latin America and the Caribbean at IFPRI, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, stated “Food insecurity, in general, has immediate effects on the nutrition and health of the affected people. This reinforces the cycle of poverty at the individual and family level, but also negatively affects the economy as a whole by weakening the human capital that is needed to grow.”