POVERTY AND FOOD INSECURITY IN THE MEXICAN COUNTRYSIDE: AN UNSOLVED PUBLIC POLICY ISSUE
The aim of this study was to analyze the causes of poverty and food insecurity in rural Mexico under the framework of public policy, in order to contribute to the conceptual understanding of this issue through a review of documents with a historical perspective. It addresses the conceptual developme...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma Chapingo |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-UACHP |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:688378264004 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=688378264004 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Asymmetries food poverty rural sector food policies |
| Sumario: | The aim of this study was to analyze the causes of poverty and food insecurity in rural Mexico under the framework of public policy, in order to contribute to the conceptual understanding of this issue through a review of documents with a historical perspective. It addresses the conceptual development of food security, a priority issue on the public agenda with regulatory frameworks that have failed to guarantee the right to food. Food policies in Mexico are characterized by reflecting the international pattern of the food security approach, linked to the new global agro-food system, in which poverty and food insecurity constitute an opportunity for the corporate food regime that limits access to food to millions of people. It is concluded that food security in Mexico has been limited to social policies to combat poverty, devoid of recognition that it is a structural problem of asymmetric economic development, so despite government efforts, poverty and food insecurity have not been reversed. Finally, a sharing of knowledge is proposed between the approaches of food security and food sovereignty that contributes to the construction of alternatives with structural changes that, in addition to overcoming these two problems, will democratize the agro-food system in the country. |
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