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29 municipalities face serious malnutrition

17/09/2026 Go to Evidence

29 of Haiti's 140 municipalities are projected to reach IPC acute malnutrition phase 3, Serious, between December 2026 and May 2027; Cité Soleil and Cabaret are expected to reach phase 4, Critical.

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (2026)

World Food Programme. (2026, September 17). Over a quarter of a million children facing acute malnutrition in Haiti amid ongoing violence. https://www.wfp.org/news/over-quarter-million-children-facing-acute-malnutrition-haiti-amid-ongoing-violence

25,750 women need nutritional support

17/09/2026 Go to Evidence

25,750 pregnant and breastfeeding women are expected to require nutritional support in Haiti amid the acute malnutrition crisis projected between June 2026 and May 2027.

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (2026)

World Food Programme. (2026, September 17). Over a quarter of a million children facing acute malnutrition in Haiti amid ongoing violence. https://www.wfp.org/news/over-quarter-million-children-facing-acute-malnutrition-haiti-amid-ongoing-violence

253,725 children face acute malnutrition

17/09/2026 Go to Evidence

253,725 children aged 6 to 59 months are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Haiti between June 2026 and May 2027, including 93,873 severe and 159,852 moderate cases.

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (2026)

World Food Programme. (2026, September 17). Over a quarter of a million children facing acute malnutrition in Haiti amid ongoing violence. https://www.wfp.org/news/over-quarter-million-children-facing-acute-malnutrition-haiti-amid-ongoing-violence

Peru: 2015 El Niño raised pesticide exposure risk

01/04/2026 Go to Evidence

The study maps 1,793 of 1,874 Peruvian districts (95.7%), with moderate-to-high risk zones covering over one-third of the national territory, indicating ENSO events amplify pesticide dispersal. (Honles,J. et al, 2026)

(Honles,J. et al, 2026)

Honles, J., Cerapio, J. P., Monge, C., Marchio, A., Ruiz, E., Fernández, R., Bertani, S. (2026). Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics. Nature Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00087-0

Peru: 436 cancer hotspots linked to pesticide

01/04/2026 Go to Evidence

436 cancer risk hotspots linked to excessive pesticide use were identified in Peru, concentrated in the western Andes and southern coast (Honles, J. et al., 2026).

(Honles,J. et al, 2026)

Honles, J., Cerapio, J. P., Monge, C., Marchio, A., Ruiz, E., Fernández, R., Bertani, S. (2026). Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics. Nature Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00087-0

Social services: external productivity

09/10/2025 Go to Evidence

34.6 was the external relative labor productivity index for Social services in LAC versus the EU (EU=100) in 2023 (ECLAC, 2025).

34,6 fue el índice de productividad laboral relativa externa del sector Servicios sociales de ALC frente a la UE (UE=100) en 2023, según el informe (CEPAL, 2025).

Building towards Sustainable Development Goal

22/07/2025 Go to Evidence

Building towards the goal of zero hunger, the food and agriculture sector must be considered when designing nutritional interventions (Duncan et al., 2022).

Construyendo hacia el objetivo de hambre cero, el sector alimentario y agrícola debe ser considerado al diseñar intervenciones nutricionales (Duncan et al., 2022).

Duncan, E., Ashton, L., Abdulai, A. R., Sawadogo-Lewis, T., King, S. E., Fraser, E. D. G., Vosti, S., Haines, J., Knight, F., & Roberton, T. (2022). Connecting the food and agriculture sector to nutrition interventions for improved health outcomes. Food Security, 14, 657-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01262-3

Zoonotic diseases

31/12/2023 Go to Evidence

75% of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are of animal origin (FAO, 2023).

El 75% de las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes que afectan al ser humano son de origen animal (FA0. 2023)

FAO (2023).Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Briefing note,

Sector: One Health
Area: One Health

Foodborne Diseases

20/11/2023 Go to Evidence

33% to 90% of diarrheal syndrome cases, which cause 1.4 million child deaths annually, are associated with foodborne illness (McDermott and Grace, 2011).

(McDermott y Grace, 2011)

https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1234-enfermedades-asociadas-a-la-agricultura:-adaptar-la-agricultura-para-mejorar-la-salud-humana