LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Covid-19 and beyond
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Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Valeria Piñeiro GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT GLOBAL LAUNCH EVENT - 2021 Global Food Policy Report: Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19 APR 13, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Covid-19 and beyond
- 1. Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Valeria Piñeiro International Food Policy Research Institute April 13, 2021 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Covid-19 and beyond
- 2. ▪ LAC characteristics: • High levels of urbanization • Size of the informal sector • High rates of obesity • Weak health system ▪ Heterogeneity in mitigation strategies: • Lockdowns • the size of stimulus packages The region has been hit hard by the pandemic
- 3. ▪The world’s leading net food exporting region, plays in global food supply and global environmental sustainability and biodiversity. ▪The region’s management of the current pandemic and its aftermath will have planetary repercussions. The role of Latin America and the Caribbean
- 4. ▪ The pandemic has magnified structural gaps in inequality, limited fiscal space, low productivity, informality and fragmented social protection and health systems. Post pandemic But we are not there yet ▪ The region will need to expand support for long-term transformation of LAC food systems and redesign safety nets to address both the lingering impacts of the crisis and the vulnerabilities that underlie these impacts.