Economics

A Fifth of Food Output Is Wasted in Famine-Threatened Venezuela

People walk through a market in Caracas on May 28.Photographer: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images
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For a country on the brink of famine, Venezuela is seeing a disturbing amount of food going to waste.

About 60,000 tons a month, or 13% of national consumption, isn’t being consumed mostly because of fuel shortages that prevent farmers from collecting and distributing food, according to data from producers and distributors.