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Highlights: Food security risks in the Caribbean can be heighted by exposure to external shocks. This study made use of the LA-AIDS model to derive Hicksian price elasticities...

Highlights: The 2023 Global Food Policy Report explores a growing body of evidence on how diverse policy responses can reduce both the immediate and longer-term impacts...

By mid-2022, the population facing the three highest phases of acute food insecurity was greater than at any point in the six-year history of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC)...

Highlights: The first part of this edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 presents up-to-date data on the cost and affordability of healthy diets...

The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region has the highest levels of inequality and inequity globally. In addition, the combined effects of COVID-19 have amplified the food emergency and threatened...

The Covid-19 pandemic induced a proliferation of economic and trade measures to deal with its effects on the population, including consumers and producers. Information became a valuable public good in today’s...

This chapter provides an overview of the current and estimated impacts for 2021 and 2022 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean and discuss possible policy responses, focusing on food systems...

Caribbean countries, a set of mostly Small Island Developing States (SIDS) , are threatened by both economic and natural hazards. Nations have specialized in...

The authors of this book delve into the diagnoses, but above all, they propose solutions, conceived from the Latin American and Caribbean experience, in dialogue with the vast and sometimes cacophonous world debate...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on how people earn a living and meet critical needs. The Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact Survey was...