The number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 30% since 2019 due to aspects such as the pandemic COVID-19 climate crisis and war in Ukraine.

This is stated in an interview. EFE Deputy General Manager and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO) Mario Lubetkin, who assures that “more than 56 million people are in a situation of hunger”, which is 30% more than 43 million in 2019.

During his speech, he emphasizes that changing of the climate “It weighs more and more” and adds that in some cases “dramatic” combinations of droughts and floods occur in the region and in Europe, for this reason he advocates “producer protection”.

“The rise in prices comes from the complete destruction of plantations, but it is also a huge pretense of small producers in family farmingthen this is a double effect,” the deputy director notes.

For this reason, he proposes to “prevent the predictable and mitigate the mitigating” to prepare small producers and to family farming from a scenario that “could have a terrible impact,” a situation to which governments and international institutions “should be prepared to provide financial assistance.”

“First, welcome the moment as best you can; secondly, to obtain sufficient funds to absorb the impact on the operator, and thirdly, so that the actors, in this case governments, the public and private sectors, can partially absorb the impact. impact on price that it will go directly to the end consumer,” sums up Lyubetkin.