According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), The Dominican Republic presented a significant decrease in the levels of undernourishment (hunger) in the last two years.
in your report “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022”, organizations indicate that, despite the pandemic, the country reports a prevalence of undernourishment of 6.7% for 2021while in the previous period (2019-2020) that figure was 8.3%.
They explain that Dominican Republic, next to Panamaare the countries that achieve a largest reduction in hunger figures across the regionobserving an increase in the great majority of the rest.
They add that the decrease in the index of malnutrition can be explained by the package of measures that the government deployed to contain families before the pandemic, with the expansion of coverage of Supérate, increase in the production of food from the basket basic, support for direct sowing, zero rate and others.
“It is important to highlight that total number of hungry people worldwide in 2021 (768 million), Latin America and the Caribbean concentrates 7.4%”, indicates the report.
According to the figures presented in this report, the Dominican Republic has approximately 700,000 people in a state of undernourishment or hunger.
What does undernourishment measure?
This index measures an estimate of the total population that cannot access enough food to meet their needs and lead a healthy life for a year. Three parameters are taken into account: average consumption of food energy, coefficients of variation of inequality and threshold of minimum necessary energy consumption.
