Mario Lubetkin: "The question is how to protect the producers?" | Video

Montevideo, May 29 (EFE).- The number of people suffering from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 30% since 2019 due to aspects such as the covid-19 pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine.

Camera: Álex Gutiérrez Páez.

STATEMENT BY MARIO LUBETKIN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GENERAL AND REPRESENTATIVE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN OF FAO.

The question is how to protect producers, because the increase in prices is effectively due to the complete destruction of plantations, but it also has a tremendous impact on small producers, on family agriculture, so it is a double effect.

The first is to affect the moment in the best possible way, the second is to generate adequate funds to absorb the impact on producers, and the third is for the actors, in this case governments and others, supporting the public and private sector to partially absorb the impact of the prices that will go directly to the end consumer.

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Date: 29/05/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Economy, business and finance
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 44 seconds
Reference: 55011245728
Relevance: Normal