From the pandemics to food crisis in Peru, by Eduardo Zegarra, via Ojo Público
In May, 14% of households in Lima and Callao could not buy protein foods such as meat, fish and eggs due to lack of money. At the national level, in all urban Peru the number rises to 3.5 million people; not counting the rural areas, hard hit. With the high number of contagions in the markets and the neglect of the State towards small farmers, an interruption in the food supply channels is being generated. Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, writes in Ojo Público about food crisis in times of the pandemic.
