Food insecurity

1.1 million migrants and refugees in Ecuador and Peru faced acute food insecurity due to climate events and lack of formal employment (FAO et al., 2025).

FAO et al., 2025

FAO, FIDA, OPS, PMA y UNICEF. 2025. América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama Regional de la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Nutrición 2024: Fomentando la resiliencia frente a la variabilidad del clima y los eventos climáticos extremos para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición. Santiago.

Cost of a healthy diet

4.56 PPP dollars per person per day was the average cost of a healthy diet in LAC in 2022, the highest in the world (FAO et al., 2025).

FAO et al., 2025

FAO, FIDA, OPS, PMA y UNICEF. 2025. América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama Regional de la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Nutrición 2024: Fomentando la resiliencia frente a la variabilidad del clima y los eventos climáticos extremos para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición. Santiago.

Exposure to climatic events

37 million people suffer from hunger in countries with high exposure to climate events in LAC, compared to 3 million in countries with low exposure (FAO et al., 2025).

FAO et al., 2025

FAO, FIDA, OPS, PMA y UNICEF. 2025. América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama Regional de la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Nutrición 2024: Fomentando la resiliencia frente a la variabilidad del clima y los eventos climáticos extremos para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición. Santiago.

Prevalence of undernourishment

1.5 percentage points increased the prevalence of undernourishment in LAC between 2019 and 2023 in countries affected by extreme weather events (FAO et al., 2025).

FAO et al., 2025

FAO, FIDA, OPS, PMA y UNICEF. 2025. América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama Regional de la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Nutrición 2024: Fomentando la resiliencia frente a la variabilidad del clima y los eventos climáticos extremos para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición. Santiago.

Coffee consumption

Coffee consumption grows between 2% and 2.5% annually (EOM, 2024).

EOM (2024)

EOM (2024). El comercio de café en el mundo

Evidence detail

Análisis Participativo

Healthy diet

More than 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2023, according to the SOFI report.

Apoyar la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios hacia la sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Libro Blanco. PNUD

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, & WHO. (2023). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum. FAO. https://shorturl.at/cFo85

WFP Annual Investments

USD 23.4 million was the annual average that WFP executed during the decade 2013-2022 in food purchases, logistics services and monetary transfers (Namdar and Saa, 2024).

Namdar y Saa (2024)

M. Namdar y C. Saa, “Las compras locales de alimentos como posible factor de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe. Etapa 2: las compras inclusivas”, Documentos de Proyectos (LC/TS.2024/79), Santiago, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2024.

Ultraprocessed foods

57% of the adult diet in the UK and 66% of the adolescent diet is composed of ultra-processed foods (UPAs).

Jackson T. (2024). The False Economy of Big Food and the case for a new food economy. Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC).

Exports in Honduras

A 5% drop in exports of goods in Honduras was driven by a reduction in the export volumes of coffee (-10%), palm oil (-34%), bananas (-9%) and textile products (-70%) (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL (2024)

CEPAL, Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/16-P), Santiago, 2024