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Estudios sociales. Revista de alimentación contemporánea y desarrollo regional
On-line version ISSN 2395-9169
Abstract
ARELLANO-ESPARZA, Carlos Alberto. Food security and public policy: A civilizational challenge. Estud. soc. Rev. aliment. contemp. desarro. reg. [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.59, e221103. Epub Mar 06, 2023. ISSN 2395-9169. https://doi.org/10.24836/es.v32i59.1203.
Objective:
To explore and analyses the importance of food policies through the concept of food security and its dimensions in the case of Mexico and food policies.
Methodology:
Implementation of an analytical device using the food security concept and its dimensions through which food policies can be analyzed.
Results:
Food policy in Mexico has a rather limited scope: between 1940 and 1990, policies catered to the food security dimensions of availability and access through production and consumption subsidies, in addition to fostering productive and commercial activities; from the 1980s onwards, food policies have largely leaned towards the food security dimension of access of the most vulnerable population.
Limitations:
The analysis requires statistical data of the overall contribution of food policies towards food security, whether as individual interventions or from an aggregate perspective.
Conclusions:
Food security does not seem to be a priority for the Mexican State; there is not a wide public strategy in place to move towards food security; for the most part only two of the four dimensions of the food security concept (access and utilization) are considered in the catalogue of policy interventions.
Keywords : contemporary food; food security; public policy; access; availability; utilization; stability.