{"id":119223,"date":"2021-04-18T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119223"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:07:56","slug":"brazil-food-insecurity-hits-125-million-amid-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119223","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Food insecurity hits 125 million amid covid-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Brazil-Food-Insecurity-Hits-125-Million-Amid-COVID-19-Crisis-20210416-0021.html#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/__export\/1618614087839\/sites\/telesur\/img\/2021\/04\/16\/food_insecurity.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"The report highlights that households with children up to 4 years old are the hardest hit by food insecurity, showing levels well above the national average. \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, April 18 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; At least 125.6 million Brazilians have not eaten in appropriate quantity and quality since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest data by the Food for Justice Research Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based at the Free University of Berlin, the project measured the levels of food insecurity in Brazil and found that over 59.3 percent of Brazilians currently live under these conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report highlights that households with children up to 4 years old are the hardest hit by food insecurity, showing levels well above the national average. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, at least 44 percent of Brazilians stopped eating meat and healthy food during the COVID-19 pandemic, turning to processed food instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the gender and ethnic aspects play a major in a family&#8217;s probability of experiencing poor nutrition. The data shows malnutrition in 25.5 percent of single-mother households, compared to 13.3 percent in man-lead families, and these indicators rise to 67.5 percent when the person is black. &#8212; NNN-TELESUR<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASILIA, April 18 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; At least 125.6 million Brazilians have not eaten in appropriate quantity and quality since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest data by the Food for Justice Research Group. Based at the Free University of Berlin, the project measured the levels of food insecurity in Brazil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}