31st FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), 26-30 April 2010, Panama City, Panama

摘要

The twin crises of drastic food price rises and world financial and economic crisis have significantly affected food and nutritional security in the LAC region. Nearly two decades of progress in combating hunger in the region, during which LAC countries had succeeded in reducing the number of hungry people from 53 million to 45 million, were largely erased and undernourished people are expected in 2010 to reach the same level as in 1990-1992: 53 million out of the current 600 million people in the region (and ca. 5% of the estimated 1,020 million undernourished in the world).