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.