Latin America: Affordability as a barrier to buying food 2021-2023

In July and August 2023, respondents from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico were asked to rate the difficulty of buying healthy and sustainable food due to a lack of affordability. About 62 percent of the respondents in Argentina answered that it was either very difficult or somewhat difficult. This represented an increase of seven percentage points compared to 2021. The country with the second-highest increase between 2021 and 2023 was Peru, with the share of respondents answering in this manner went from 19 percent to 25 percent.

在2023年7月和8月期间，来自阿根廷、哥伦比亚、巴西、秘鲁和墨西哥的受访者被询问因价格不菲而购买健康和可持续食品的难度。大约62%的阿根廷受访者表示，这要么非常困难，要么有些困难。与2021年相比，这一比例上升了7个百分点。在2021年至2023年间增幅第二大的国家是秘鲁，受访者中选择这种方式回答的比例从19%上升至25%。