Editing Peru (section)

=== Agriculture ===
[[File:Quinoa growing on Isla del Sol, Lake Titicaca.jpg|thumb|[[Quinoa]]]]
Peru is the world's largest producer of [[quinoa]] and [[maca]], one of the 5 largest producers of [[avocado]], [[blueberry]], [[artichoke]] and [[asparagus]], one of the 10 largest producers in the world of [[coffee]] and [[Cocoa bean|cocoa]], and one of the 15 largest producers in the world of [[potato]] and [[pineapple]], also having a considerable production of [[grape]], [[sugarcane]], [[rice]], [[banana]], [[maize]] and [[cassava]]; its agriculture is considerably diversified. In livestock, Peru is one of the 20 largest producers of [[chicken meat]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fao.org/faostat/es/#data/QCL/| title = Agriculture in Peru, by FAO| access-date = 12 July 2022| archive-date = 16 October 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201016050347/http://www.fao.org/faostat/es/#data/QCL/| url-status = live}}</ref>

According to a report by the UN [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] (FAO) published in August 2022, half of Peru's population is moderately [[food insecure]] (16.6 million people), and more than 20% (6.8 million people), are severely food insecure: they go without food for a whole day, or even several days.<ref name="Atalayar" /><ref name="Chaparro-2023" />

The director of FAO Peru stresses that "this is the great paradox of a country that has enough food for its population. Peru is a net producer of food and one of the major agro-exporting powers in the region. Food insecurity is due to high [[social inequality]] and low wages, with Peru's minimum wage being one of the lowest in South America and a large informal sector. According to the FAO, the small farmers themselves suffer from hunger. Poorly paid, they also suffer from the impacts of [[climate change]] and face the problem of [[Drug Trafficking|drug trafficking]] on their land and mining activity that exhausts the soil."<ref name="Atalayar" /><ref name="Chaparro-2023" />