Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Identifying modifiable factors associated with FI can serve as a basis for designing strategies that mitigate the consequences of disruptions caused by health crises, such as the pandemic and the consequent FI, and that strengthen regional food systems, making them more sustainable and sustainable. Although several studies have evaluated FI during the pandemic, the majority correspond to high- or low-income countries with socioeconomic and cultural characteristics that do not allow comparisons with our continent [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]. In LAC, studies in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru have been published [21, 22, 23]: however, these have been carried out in small samples and did not evaluate the influence of different sociodemographic factors. Therefore, the objective of this research was to know the prevalence and factors associated with FI in LAC countries during the early stage of quarantine due to COVID-19.