This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO), Rome, Italy
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The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2023: urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural-urban continuum, 2023, pp 316 pp.
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...
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Figueroa, M. L.; Moral, J. B. del; Reyes, V. C.
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Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo, Mexico
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Textual Análisis del Medio Rural Latinoamericano, 2018, No.71, pp 71-105
The objective of this essay was to identify food vulnerability starting from the origin of the concept of 'food security' and at the same time to describe Mexican food policy. The question that guided this work was: the situation of vulnerability to food that is lived in rural Mexican households is ...
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Romero, N. M.; Sangerman-Jarquín, D. M.; Hernández Juárez, M.; Merino, A. L.; Escalona Maurice, M. J.
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Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico City, Mexico
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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas, 2019, 10, 4, pp 935-945
Introduction: food security exists when all people have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food at all times to meet their nutritional needs and food preferences in order to lead an active and healthy life. Ensuring food security refers specifically to satisfying a basic ...
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Anabella, Z.; Susana, B.; Concilio, M. C.; Rossi, M. L.
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Asociación Argentina de Dietistas y Nutricionistas Dietista, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Diaeta, 2021, 39, 174, pp 22-31
This paper aims at clarifying the food security concept. It uses as a starting point the definition approved by the World Food Summit in 1996 and seeks to explain the four dimensions of food security. In order to provide a dynamic perspective of the concept, the paper reviews the changes in...
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Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Madrid, Spain
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Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, 2009, No.224(4), pp 19-45
Food security and hunger, linked to rural poverty, in Mexico are among the greatest challenges since they include large sectors of the population, which are exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this essay is to analyze the food security of family farming and rural poverty in...
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Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico City, Mexico
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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas, 2022, 13, 3, pp 553-565
Objectives: To investigate how families and social referents adopted different policies to deal with food insecurity suffered by children under vulnerable circumstances during the COVID-19 isolation in the Province of Mendoza, Argentina. Methods: Exploratory and qualitative study. The intentional...
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Weisstaub, G.; Molina, C.
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Instituto de Salud Publico, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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Revista de Salud Pública, 2023, 25, 1,
The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the Region is a major public health concern, leading countries to implement regulations and policies to combat this issue. One such policy in Chile is the Law on Nutritional Composition of Foods and its advertising, which requires warning stamps on foods...
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Corvalán, C.; Correa, T.; Reyes, M.; Paraje, G.
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FAO & INTA, Santiago, Chile
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The impact of the Chilean law on food labelling on the food production sector, 2021, pp 86 pp.
This study is an analysis of one year's results (2008) of the Integral Food Program (IFP) of the Agricultural Development Institute (ADI). The purpose of the study was to create a collective learning process, especially in relation to the sustainability of the program and its contribution to the ...
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Drakeford, A.; Muñoz, A.; Castro, E.
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Universidad EARTH, Guácimo, Costa Rica
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Tierra Tropical: Sostenibilidad, Ambiente y Sociedad, 2010, 6, 2, pp 163-171
This publication describes the current situation of food security and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean, with emphasis on the importance of nutrition in achieving economic and social development of the region. Nutrition-related challenges in the region are initially discussed, followed...
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FAO, Rome, Italy
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2016 América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional: sistemas alimentarios sostenibles para poner fin al hambre y la malnutrición, 2017, pp vi + 163 pp.