The DR is among a group of eight Latin American nations that neither has sufficient food to feed its people nor sufficient money to import it. So says a report published by the UN’s agricultural organization (FAO), which places the DR alongside Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua as living with "alimentary insecurity." The report calls on the governments of the eight nations to reduce malnutrition which, it claims, affects 54 million persons. The report was offered by Gustavo Gordillo, Deputy Director of FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean, during the 26th annual FAO conference held in Merida, Mexico. The named countries have fallen short of the target for reduction of malnutrition that was established at the World Summit on Food held in Rome in 1996, and must redouble their efforts to attain it, according to Gordillo.
