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El último informe de la FAO revela que el 51% de la población peruana se encuentra en una situación de inseguridad alimentaria moderada y grave. Perú es de los países de América del Sur con mayores retrocesos en el derecho a la alimentación.
“Data doesn’t grow on trees. It doesn’t magically come to us. This bedrock information cannot be replicated.”
Statisticians and demographers are sounding the alarm about threats to official data gathering in the U.S. They warn that funding for the federal statistical agencies is inadequate and measures in a House appropriations bill could undermine what Americans know about themselves. A report released Tuesday by the American Statistical Association also warns that the agencies lack protections against political interference. Other advocates worry about the appropriations bill being considered by the GOP-controlled Congress. They say that bill would limit how many times a respondent can be contacted by federal agencies, and would therefore miss many more people.
“Setting up a local data surveillance framework was really important for us, because we can’t really wait for state data, which is like two years behind.”
Interesting template for bringing the right people, data, and funding together to reduce opioid deaths.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/opioid-epidemic-fight-funding-00164640
“A New York Times analysis of federal data and shipping traffic found… 193 bridges that each carry 10,000 vehicles or more a day that have no protections installed around the piers planted in river and seabeds that hold up the bridges.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/06/us/bridge-collapse-protections-baltimore.html
“I don’t think the average consumer who, even if they read those terms of service, would understand that there are potentially governments buying this data, and not just their government but potentially adversarial foreign governments. And so I don’t think the consumer consent has been full and I don’t think it’s been fair.” Byron Tau, author of “Means of Control,” on @lawfarepodcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id498897343?i=1000648462044
