Now to Argentina in South America. Over two million people fell under the poverty line in 2018, taking the national poverty rate up to 32 percent. With inflation at the highest rate in decades and the country in recession, many low-income families are unable to afford food in a country that produces food for millions. CGTN's Joel Richards reports.

Delicia Riveros waits at a community centre for a doctor's appointment for her seven-year-old daughter who is underweight. Her family is worried about her health. Unemployed, mother of eight, Riveros says her husband can only find limited work. They don't make enough money to buy the food for the family.

DELICIA RIVEROS "I brought my daughter to see the doctor, she gets good attention here, we can also get some food. This is a good neighborhood, but it is still poor like it always has been. We have to carry on."

Like many in this neighborhood, Riveros receives food for her family from this soup kitchen, run by Maria Diaz, who sees more and more people needing handouts.

MARIA DIAZ 'ALTOS SAN LORENZO' SOUP KITCHEN, LA PLATA "Unfortunately, I have a lot of people coming here with young kids, single mothers who don't have a way out of the crisis, men who never used to come here, coming to ask for food because they have lost their jobs. The day to day is hard, this is the reality."

This is Altos de San Lorenzo, not a remote rural area, but a neighborhood a few blocks out from the centre of the city of La Plata, just 35 miles south of Buenos Aires.

JOEL RICHARDS LA PLATA, ARGENTINA "Community centres that provide food and medical attention in neighborhoods like this are increasingly important as poverty is rising in Argentina. This is a country that produces and exports food for hundreds of millions of people around the world but which is increasingly unable to feed its own population."

The latest government figures show 2.6 million people fell into poverty in the last year, with rampant inflation and job losses meaning many people don't have enough money to buy food. More than 44 million people are in the country. While nationwide poverty rate stands at 32%. And among those aged 14 and below, that figure is 46.8%. The Social Debt Observatory at the Catholic University in Buenos Aires has measured poverty since 2010, and it has done so independently from government figures. Juan Ignacio Bonfiglio says Argentina has a structural problem.

JUAN IGNACIO BONFIGLIO SOCIAL DEBT OBSERVATORY CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY "A large part of the Argentine population survives on low skilled jobs, with low income, poor work conditions, and little stability. We can place this percentage of the labour force between 20 and 30%. The consequence is structural poverty. This goes beyond this government or the previous one, it is a situation that has been like this for decades."

President Mauricio Macri says that Argentina still aims to reduce poverty. The government has consistently stated it must be judged on its efforts to reduce poverty.

MAURICIO MACRI PRESIDENT "Our goal is and has always been to reduce poverty."

But with inflation the highest it has been in decades, more and more families in neighborhoods like this are struggling to feed their children. Joel Richards, CGTN, in La Plata, Argentina.