NEW AQ: Creating a Better Breadbasket for Latin America
Both food exports and food insecurity are on the rise. AQ’s new special report looks at why the issue deserves more attention.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on food security in Latin America Today’s Latin America is truly becoming the world’s breadbasket: the source of more than 60% of the planet’s soy, a quarter of its beef and chicken, and so on. But paradoxically, even as exports soar, the region faces serious challenges feeding its own population. Nearly 30% of Latin Americans are estimated to suffer from food insecurity—an increase of six percentage points from a decade ago. This “food paradox,” as the award-winning journalist John Otis calls it in this issue’s cover...
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