Right to food in times of COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic caused countries to enter quarantine, which caused the total or partial closure of some activities. In Ecuador, the quarantine started on March 17, 2020, this caused the limitation of the manufacturing industry and food production, so the objective of this research is to determine the incidence of the index of food production and manufacturing industry in the malnutrition index of this population. Pearson's statistic was applied to determine if there is correlation between the variables of study, where it was obtained that there is a direct linear correlation between the index of people with malnutrition, Food Production Index and Index of production of the manufacturing industry of 0.41 and 0.61 respectively, Ecuador has an increasing trend of malnutrition rate since 2016, date that obtained 9.7% and currently has reached 12.5%. In addition, the decreasing trend of food is contrary to the trend of the population, a situation that threatens the availability of food.