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ABSTRACT
The objective was to determine the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary analysis was performed using the waves 1 to 3 of the 2020 COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys in 13 LAC countries. The countries with the highest FI in the first wave were Honduras (60.3%), Peru (58.1%) and Ecuador (57.9%). Likewise, the countries with the greatest differences in the prevalence of FI between the first and last waves in percentage points (PP) were Peru (−29), Guatemala (−27.7) and Bolivia (−21.8). LAC countries face a great burden of FI.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to Donna Pringle for reviewing the language and style.
Disclosure Statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in “Microdata Library” at https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/hfps, reference data “High-Frequency Phone Surveys.”
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: AHV, DA. Data curation: AHV. Formal analysis: AHV. Funding acquisition: None. Methodology: AHV. Project administration: AHV. Visualization: AHV, HChT. Writing–original draft: AHV, FJVL, HChT, DA. Writing–review & editing: AHV, FJVL, HChT, DA. All authors assume responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
Sources Of Financing
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.