PERU / FOOD SECURITY
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STORY: PERU / FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 03:55
SOURCE: UNTV CH
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24, 28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA CAPITAL / CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA / CANTA, LIMA PROVINCE, PERU
SHOTLIST:
25 OCTOBER 2022, CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA, PERU
1. Wide shot, drone shot of Costa Verde over the Pacific Ocean
2. Wide shot, drone shot of Chorrillos Town Ship
3. Wide shot, street of Chorrillos with girl running towards her mother
4. Wide shot, street of Chorrillos, Pacific Ocean in the background
5. Med shot, Chorrillos neighbours walking on the street
6. Various shots, neighbours and volunteers unloading donated food from the truck
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“According to a study we did in 2021, we estimate that 51 percent of the population is living in moderate food insecurity, and 20 percent of that group is in acute food insecurity. That means people have reduced the quality of their diet or are eating less than they need.”
25 OCTOBER 2022, CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA, PERU
8. Med shot, unloaded vegetables stored in a room before their distribution to different soup kitchens
9. Med shot, people selecting vegetables in the distribution site
10. Close up, women picking up zucchini
11. Close up, neighbours selecting vegetables
12. Med shot, Jenny Rojas Chumbe walking back to her soup kitchen with a box full of food
13. Med shot, Jenny Rojas Chumbe walking into her soup kitchen
14. Close up, poster with soup kitchen information
15. Med shot, women grabbing potatoes to cook them
16. Close up, women firing up the stove
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jenny Rojas Chumbe, President, Ollita Ayuda Social Soup Kitchen:
“Lately, it’s raising again. The number of meals we were giving had dropped to 50 a day, because the neighbours were doing better in terms of purchasing power. But lately, it’s been raising because the crisis is affecting a lot of people in the community. Take the vegetables; they are far too expensive. A kilogram of potatoes costs more than three Soles, a litre of cooking oil, more than 12 Soles.”
18. Close up, woman pouring soup in a plastic bowl
19. Close up, old man packing the bowl in a plastic bag to take it home
20. Med shot, old man leaving the soup kitchen
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jenny Rojas Chumbe, President, Ollita Ayuda Social Soup Kitchen:
“We don’t cook chicken every day. Sometimes, once, or twice a week, because we can’t, it would be out of our budget.”
27 OCTOBER 2022, WHOLESALE MARKET, LIMA, PERU
22. Med shot, women waiting inside the wholesale vegetable market of Lima
23. Med shot, people working in the vegetable market
24. Med shot, two women weighing vegetables
25. Close up, price tag of the vegetable
26. Med shot, people working in the vegetable market
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
27. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“The soup kitchens were a citizen response to the food problem that had been going on since before COVID. We had rates of, for example, malnutrition and anaemia that had stagnated. The economic, political, and environmental problems that we were already having were telling us that the food situation was at risk. When COVID came, this exploded.”
27 OCTOBER 2022, SURQUILLO AREA, LIMA, PERU
28. Med shot, people walking inside the market of Surquillo
29. Med shot, women with child on her back in the market
30. Med shot, street view of people walking
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
31. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“In addition, the increase in prices that we are seeing, as a result of a series of phenomena that are taking place at a global level, especially the increase in fuel prices, supplies also as a result of the conflicts in Ukraine.”
24 OCTOBER 2022, CANTA, LIMA PROVINCE, PERU
32. Wide shot, farm worker spraying a field
33. Wide shot, farm workers picking zucchini in a field
34. Close up, farm workers picking zucchini in a field
35. Med shot, farmer picking up a basket of Zucchini on his back
36. Med shot, farm worker spraying a field
37. Wide shot, workers working in a zucchini field
STORYLINE:
Peru has become the most food insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO). Half the population of the Andean country is suffering from food insecurity, twice as many as before the pandemic.
Some 16.6 million people --more than half the population -- now find themselves without regular access to enough safe and nutritious food.
It's a shocking reversal for Peru, an upper middle-income country in the World Bank's rankings, that can grow all the food it needs.
According to a 2021 study of FAO, 51 percent of the population is living in moderate food insecurity. “20 per cent of that group is in acute food insecurity, explains Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project coordinator at FAO Peru. That means people have reduced the quality of their diet or are eating less than they need.”
Poverty is to blame, says the Food and Agriculture Organization. The poverty rate this year is 25 percent, meaning one in four Peruvians doesn’t have enough money to cover their basic food basket. Most people end up simply alleviating their hunger, but not eating adequate food with all the necessary nutrients, such as proteins. In parts of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest - known locally as the “Selva” region - up to 70 percent of the population is anaemic.
In the poor and dusty suburb of Chorrillos, one of Lima’s shanty towns overlooking the Pacific Ocean, women are busy behind the stove.
Among them, Jenny Rojas Chumbe, a community activist, president of the “Ayuda Social” soup kitchen.
When COVID-19 hit the country, sending millions home with no income, Jenny saw up close the urgent needs in her community and started collecting food to organize soup kitchens.
These “ollas comunes” - as they are known here - are getting donations from food banks as well as other organizations and individuals. From 220 daily meals at the peak of the pandemic, she is still serving about 100 a day today, even though many have gone back to work.
“The number of meals we were giving had dropped to 50 a day, because the neighbours were doing better in terms of purchasing power. But lately, it’s been raising because the crisis is affecting a lot of people. If you take the vegetables, they are far too expensive. A kilogram of potatoes costs more than three Soles (0,80$), a litre of cooking oil, more than 12 Soles (3.15$),” explains Jenny Rojas Chumbe.
Soaring potato prices have a real impact - and a powerful symbolic one in Peru: it is on the shores of Lake Titicaca that potatoes were first cultivated.
As for meat, chicken is the main source of protein in Peru, for those who can afford it. As a matter of fact, Jenny Rojas Chumbe doesn’t cook chicken every day for her neighbours, “sometimes, once, or twice a week, because it would be out of our budget.”
Peru's annual inflation rate for 2022 remains above 8 per cent in the past months, its highest level in 24 years. Staples like wheat, rice, and cooking oil have more than doubled in price.
The soup kitchens were a citizen response to the food problem that had been going on since before COVID, explains Fernando Castro Verastegui. “We had rates of, for example, malnutrition and anaemia that had stagnated. The economic, political, and environmental problems that we were already having were telling us that the food situation was at risk. When COVID came, this exploded.”
Peru was hit badly by COVID-19. It suffered the world’s highest mortality rate during the pandemic, as more than 0.65 percent of the population succumbed to the virus. In parallel, lockdowns increased unemployment.
Added to the post-COVID downturn, inflation, driven by the war in Ukraine, is weighing heavily on prospects for recovery. Peru is also “experiencing the increase in prices, said Castro Verastegui, as a result of a series of phenomena that are taking place at a global level, especially the increase in fuel prices, supplies also as a result of the conflicts in Ukraine.”
In addition to the price hikes of food and energy, FAO points out, government mismanagement, dietary habits, and an over-reliance on imported food staples and fertilizers as further causes of Peru's food crisis.
Imported chemical fertilizers cost up to four times what they did a year ago, forcing farmers to reduce its use. This is likely to impact food production for the coming months and aggravate the situation.
TRT: 03:55
SOURCE: UNTV CH
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24, 28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA CAPITAL / CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA / CANTA, LIMA PROVINCE, PERU
SHOTLIST:
25 OCTOBER 2022, CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA, PERU
1. Wide shot, drone shot of Costa Verde over the Pacific Ocean
2. Wide shot, drone shot of Chorrillos Town Ship
3. Wide shot, street of Chorrillos with girl running towards her mother
4. Wide shot, street of Chorrillos, Pacific Ocean in the background
5. Med shot, Chorrillos neighbours walking on the street
6. Various shots, neighbours and volunteers unloading donated food from the truck
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“According to a study we did in 2021, we estimate that 51 percent of the population is living in moderate food insecurity, and 20 percent of that group is in acute food insecurity. That means people have reduced the quality of their diet or are eating less than they need.”
25 OCTOBER 2022, CHORRILLOS TOWNSHIP, LIMA, PERU
8. Med shot, unloaded vegetables stored in a room before their distribution to different soup kitchens
9. Med shot, people selecting vegetables in the distribution site
10. Close up, women picking up zucchini
11. Close up, neighbours selecting vegetables
12. Med shot, Jenny Rojas Chumbe walking back to her soup kitchen with a box full of food
13. Med shot, Jenny Rojas Chumbe walking into her soup kitchen
14. Close up, poster with soup kitchen information
15. Med shot, women grabbing potatoes to cook them
16. Close up, women firing up the stove
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jenny Rojas Chumbe, President, Ollita Ayuda Social Soup Kitchen:
“Lately, it’s raising again. The number of meals we were giving had dropped to 50 a day, because the neighbours were doing better in terms of purchasing power. But lately, it’s been raising because the crisis is affecting a lot of people in the community. Take the vegetables; they are far too expensive. A kilogram of potatoes costs more than three Soles, a litre of cooking oil, more than 12 Soles.”
18. Close up, woman pouring soup in a plastic bowl
19. Close up, old man packing the bowl in a plastic bag to take it home
20. Med shot, old man leaving the soup kitchen
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jenny Rojas Chumbe, President, Ollita Ayuda Social Soup Kitchen:
“We don’t cook chicken every day. Sometimes, once, or twice a week, because we can’t, it would be out of our budget.”
27 OCTOBER 2022, WHOLESALE MARKET, LIMA, PERU
22. Med shot, women waiting inside the wholesale vegetable market of Lima
23. Med shot, people working in the vegetable market
24. Med shot, two women weighing vegetables
25. Close up, price tag of the vegetable
26. Med shot, people working in the vegetable market
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
27. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“The soup kitchens were a citizen response to the food problem that had been going on since before COVID. We had rates of, for example, malnutrition and anaemia that had stagnated. The economic, political, and environmental problems that we were already having were telling us that the food situation was at risk. When COVID came, this exploded.”
27 OCTOBER 2022, SURQUILLO AREA, LIMA, PERU
28. Med shot, people walking inside the market of Surquillo
29. Med shot, women with child on her back in the market
30. Med shot, street view of people walking
28 OCTOBER 2022, LIMA, PERU
31. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project Coordinator, FAO Peru:
“In addition, the increase in prices that we are seeing, as a result of a series of phenomena that are taking place at a global level, especially the increase in fuel prices, supplies also as a result of the conflicts in Ukraine.”
24 OCTOBER 2022, CANTA, LIMA PROVINCE, PERU
32. Wide shot, farm worker spraying a field
33. Wide shot, farm workers picking zucchini in a field
34. Close up, farm workers picking zucchini in a field
35. Med shot, farmer picking up a basket of Zucchini on his back
36. Med shot, farm worker spraying a field
37. Wide shot, workers working in a zucchini field
STORYLINE:
Peru has become the most food insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO). Half the population of the Andean country is suffering from food insecurity, twice as many as before the pandemic.
Some 16.6 million people --more than half the population -- now find themselves without regular access to enough safe and nutritious food.
It's a shocking reversal for Peru, an upper middle-income country in the World Bank's rankings, that can grow all the food it needs.
According to a 2021 study of FAO, 51 percent of the population is living in moderate food insecurity. “20 per cent of that group is in acute food insecurity, explains Fernando Castro Verastegui, Project coordinator at FAO Peru. That means people have reduced the quality of their diet or are eating less than they need.”
Poverty is to blame, says the Food and Agriculture Organization. The poverty rate this year is 25 percent, meaning one in four Peruvians doesn’t have enough money to cover their basic food basket. Most people end up simply alleviating their hunger, but not eating adequate food with all the necessary nutrients, such as proteins. In parts of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest - known locally as the “Selva” region - up to 70 percent of the population is anaemic.
In the poor and dusty suburb of Chorrillos, one of Lima’s shanty towns overlooking the Pacific Ocean, women are busy behind the stove.
Among them, Jenny Rojas Chumbe, a community activist, president of the “Ayuda Social” soup kitchen.
When COVID-19 hit the country, sending millions home with no income, Jenny saw up close the urgent needs in her community and started collecting food to organize soup kitchens.
These “ollas comunes” - as they are known here - are getting donations from food banks as well as other organizations and individuals. From 220 daily meals at the peak of the pandemic, she is still serving about 100 a day today, even though many have gone back to work.
“The number of meals we were giving had dropped to 50 a day, because the neighbours were doing better in terms of purchasing power. But lately, it’s been raising because the crisis is affecting a lot of people. If you take the vegetables, they are far too expensive. A kilogram of potatoes costs more than three Soles (0,80$), a litre of cooking oil, more than 12 Soles (3.15$),” explains Jenny Rojas Chumbe.
Soaring potato prices have a real impact - and a powerful symbolic one in Peru: it is on the shores of Lake Titicaca that potatoes were first cultivated.
As for meat, chicken is the main source of protein in Peru, for those who can afford it. As a matter of fact, Jenny Rojas Chumbe doesn’t cook chicken every day for her neighbours, “sometimes, once, or twice a week, because it would be out of our budget.”
Peru's annual inflation rate for 2022 remains above 8 per cent in the past months, its highest level in 24 years. Staples like wheat, rice, and cooking oil have more than doubled in price.
The soup kitchens were a citizen response to the food problem that had been going on since before COVID, explains Fernando Castro Verastegui. “We had rates of, for example, malnutrition and anaemia that had stagnated. The economic, political, and environmental problems that we were already having were telling us that the food situation was at risk. When COVID came, this exploded.”
Peru was hit badly by COVID-19. It suffered the world’s highest mortality rate during the pandemic, as more than 0.65 percent of the population succumbed to the virus. In parallel, lockdowns increased unemployment.
Added to the post-COVID downturn, inflation, driven by the war in Ukraine, is weighing heavily on prospects for recovery. Peru is also “experiencing the increase in prices, said Castro Verastegui, as a result of a series of phenomena that are taking place at a global level, especially the increase in fuel prices, supplies also as a result of the conflicts in Ukraine.”
In addition to the price hikes of food and energy, FAO points out, government mismanagement, dietary habits, and an over-reliance on imported food staples and fertilizers as further causes of Peru's food crisis.
Imported chemical fertilizers cost up to four times what they did a year ago, forcing farmers to reduce its use. This is likely to impact food production for the coming months and aggravate the situation.
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