SPOTLIGHT ON VENEZUELAN FOOD CRISIS.
Food Insecurity today means a whole generation of Venezuelan children are being permanently afflicted now and for the rest of their lives. They aren’t getting enough to eat, with many being too short or underweight for their age, reflecting a growing crisis of malnutrition. In a survey published in May 2021, Caritas found that 42% of over 46,000 measurements taken from children in Venezuela’s poorest neighborhoods reflect stunting or wasting.
It’s simple “biomaths” - if you’re not as strong and healthy as genetically planned by nature, you’re most likely will not be able to produce as much. The same thing goes for your intellectual growth. So the negative economic effects are felt in 15 years, 20 years, when such children enter the workforce
