GUATEMALA CITY — Climate change and Covid-19 have sent impoverished Guatemala into one of its worst food security crises, the country’s top human rights official said Saturday.
The problems are so severe that 39 children have died of malnutrition so far this year, human rights ombudsman Jordan Rodas said in the Central American country’s capital.
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“Guatemala is facing a grim outlook in terms of meeting (UN) Millennium Development Goals, especially Zero Hunger,” which seeks to reduce poverty by 2030, Rodas said at an event marking World Food Day.
Rodas also said 16 percent of the almost 17 million Guatemalans suffer from malnutrition, 18 percent live in severe food insecurity and 45 percent in a situation of moderate food insecurity.FEATURED STORIES
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According to UN data, almost 50 percent of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition in Guatemala, the highest rate in Latin America.
In the first nine months of this year, 39 girls and boys under the age of five died from acute malnutrition, Rodas said.
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