“President Luis Abinader recalled that this goal went from an aspiration to becoming a priority of his government and stressed that the Dominican Republic reduced the prevalence of undernourishment from 21.3% in 2006 to less than 2.5% in 2025.

‘And today I appear before you with an emotion difficult to express. My country, the Dominican Republic, has officially left the FAO Hunger Map,’ he told representatives of the international body that meet in the Italian capital.

The head of state said that behind these statistics there are millions of people whose living conditions have improved, so he stressed the importance of continuing to promote public policies that allow families to access sufficient and nutritious food…

The president explained that the fight against hunger has been developed through two lines of action: increasing the availability of food and improving household incomes. Between 2004 and 2024, the rate of per capita food production grew by 122.3%, while between 2015 and 2025 the real income per capita of households increased by 43.7%.

It also noted that during that period, monetary poverty fell from 41.1% to 17.3 %, while extreme poverty increased from 8.7 % to 2.2 %.”

From Presidencia RD.

“Fewer homes in Mexico were left without food due to lack of money © 2026 Imagen – Excélsior. Todos los derechos reservados. El contenido de este sitio y de la edición impresa está protegido por la Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor. Prohibida la reproducción total o parcial sin autorización previa y por escrito. El material de terceros conserva sus propios derechos.

Of the country’s 39.7 million inhabited dwellings, only 6.5 per cent of them had the case that they were once without access to food in the past three months due to a lack of money or resources, according to the Inegi’s 2025 Intercensal Survey.

This proportion of households was lower than that observed in 2020, when 9.2% of households in the country suffered from the situation described, and also compared to 2010, when the proportion was 9.8%.”

From Imagen Radio.

“A super El Nino is likely to unsettle global weather and threaten food output in the coming months, but near record world inventories, expectations ​of near-normal conditions in some key producing regions and advanced planning could limit the fallout…

The last super El Nino in 2015–16, brought droughts, floods and record global ​temperatures, disrupting agricultural production from Asia to Africa. Its predecessor in 1997–98 caused widespread damage, triggering devastating floods, wildfires and crop losses.

But the 2026/27 episode could be different as consecutive years of record ​harvests have swelled global food inventories, especially in key consuming and exporting countries…

Global wheat stocks are forecast to reach at 279.95 million metric tons at the beginning ⁠of the crop year on July 1, the highest in five years, the USDA data shows.”

From Reuters.

“A government study has found that access to education, housing and nutritious food has improved nationwide…

81.4% of the population had access to education in 2024 and the use of basic supplies for studying at home — electricity, television, internet — reached 70.2% of students between 3 and 17 years old. This represented an increase of 33.5 percentage points compared to 2016.

92.1% of Mexico’s population reported access to decent housing without a lack of quality and space, while 85.9% had access to basic services in 2024. On the other hand, access to water within the home fell to 53.4% in 2024, as compared to 54.8% in 2016…

85.6% of the population did not experience a lack of access to nutritious and quality food in 2024, compared to 78.1% in 2016…

The percentage of people without deficiencies in access to health care services decreased from 84.4% in 2016 to 65.8% in 2024.”

From Mexico News Daily.