(Prensa Latina) Women have the highest malnutrition levels in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in Panama City on Tuesday.
A press release published on www.fao.org noted that the Panorama of Food and Nutritional Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 showed food insecurity in 13.6 percent for women in the Mesoamerican region in the 2017-2019 period.
After recalling that when International Women’s Day was celebrated globally on Monday the situation continues to be critical, the text specified that 25.1 percent of women in Panama do not have their own income, as part of gender gaps, which are more accentuated among women of reproductive age.
The FAO reiterated that, in Mesoamerica (southern half of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, western Nicaragua and Costa Rica), as well as the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, a higher percentage of women suffer from hunger, obesity and diet-related diseases.
FAO Sub-regional Coordinator for Mesoamerica Adoniram Sanches commented that the proposal is to adopt a systemic perspective to address the differences women experience in the exercise of their rights, taking into account interculturality and age, among other differences.
The ‘#RuralWomen, Women with Rights’ campaign received a boost on Monday on the occasion of Women’s International Day. It aims to demonstrate that the transformation of food systems is also a matter of gender equality, while it proposes encouraging the role of women as producers.
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