by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Highlighted, Solution
Challenge Though 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries produce rice, demand far exceeds supply. In addition to market risks, the livelihoods and production of the region’s rice farmers are very vulnerable to climate change, especially to changes in water...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Magazen is a small community located in the eastern portion of the Northern Massive in Haiti, close to the Dominican Republic border. The community consists of 120 families living in conditions of extreme poverty in a highly-degraded environment. Magazen is...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, the United Nations’ most recent report on this subject, the number of people suffering from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 2.4 million from 2015 to 2016,...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In the Dominican Republic, almost half (45 per cent) of deaths among children under the age of 5 are related to undernutrition. Not only does undernutrition kill, it also prevents children from growing up to live healthy and productive lives as adults, thus...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Eleven per cent of deaths from cervical cancer worldwide occur in Latin America (over 28,000 deaths per year), where it is the second most commonly diagnosed tumour among women. Seventy per cent of deaths in Latin America occur in South America, a region...
