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Almost 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean this year, as a result of the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme has said.
According to estimates published by the agency on Thursday, in 11 countries in the region where there are already nearly 4 million people facing food insecurity, an additional 10 million people could be pushed into poverty and hunger.
It is vital and urgent that we provide food assistance to the growing number of vulnerable people in the region, as well as those who depend on informal work. We still have time to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming a hunger pandemic.
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