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El Salvador: Food Insecurity Rising in Rural Areas

Categories: Latin America, El Salvador, Economics & Business, Environment, Food

The blog “Locavore del Mundo [1]” [someone who eats locally grown foods around the world] discusses how rural Salvadorian families are struggling to secure food for themselves, not particularly because they lack access to nutritious food, but rather because they are having to sell it to cover expenses that once they did not have, such as cell phone costs, and because of rising unemployment in the countryside.