Abstract

RAMIREZ SANCHEZ, Eric Uriel; CONTRERAS MOLOTLA, Felipe; CONTRERAS SUAREZ, Enrique  and  ROLDAN AMARO, José Antonio. Panorama of food in the homes of Mexico. An approach to the study of hunger. Inter disciplina [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.25, pp.93-113.  Epub Nov 22, 2021. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2021.25.79968.

The hunger that persists in the world’s population is considered as one of the deeper problems that society has not yet resolved. For Mexico, data from the National Council of Evaluation Policy of Social Development (Coneval) suggest that in 2014, 23% of mexicans suffered from lack access to food. This research presents a diagnosis about the power of households in a situation of hunger in the country. The work general objective is to examine the behavior of the magnitude and intensity of hunger in mexican households in the period from 2008 to 2014, revised through the deficit in energy consumption necessary to develop daily physical and intellectual tasks in the context of food prices crisis. The methodology used was based on the use of micro-data from the National Survey of Income and Expenditure Household (ENIGH) of 2008 and 2014, from which developed an indicator on the food situation in households. The results show that during the analysis period the number of households in a situation of hunger increased in 177,768 units, in this sense, for 2014 the hunger affected 11,238,031 households, its characteristic consumption pattern is constituted by different groups such as cereals (tortilla and rice), products of animal origin such as chicken meat and offal, milk, cheese and eggs, and processed cereals and beverages.

Keywords : hunger; food; households.

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