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FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY: IMPACTS, IMPLICATIONS AND
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Date and Place
What’s Food Security?
“There exists food security when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”
World Food Summit, 1996
Food production in LAC
Wheat Maize Rice TotalChange (%)
2011/12-2010/11 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 TotalSouth America 26.620 24.276 89.407 90.058 15.787 17.854 143.521 146.220 1,9%Argentina 15.800 13.410 22.677 22.900 843 1.170 46.660 46.436 -0,5%Brazil 6.037 5.646 56.060 56.100 7.813 9.121 72.172 73.600 2,0%
Central America and Caribbean 9 9 4.285 4.482 1.727 1.773 6.431 6.713 4,4%Mexico 3.680 4.045 22.394 20.400 167 153 34.026 31.812 -6,5%Latin America and the Caribbean 30.309 28.330 116.086 114.940 17.681 19.780 183.978 184.745 0,4%
Cereals production in LAC, 1000 tons
World’s Cereal MarketsMillion tonnes
Challenges to food access
0
5
10
15
2007/07 2008/01 2008/07 2009/01 2009/07 2010/01 2010/07 2011/01 Dic
Headline Food
*/ Weigthed average using information for 10 countries.Source: FAO-RLC
y-o-y % changeHeadline and Food inflation rate in LAC, 2007-2011*
Poverty in Latin America: Impacts of higher food prices on the poorest
Percentage Number (Millions) 2010 2011 Var. (pp %) 2010 2011 Var.Poverty 31,4 % 30,4 % -1,0 177 174 -3,0Extreme poverty 12,3 % 12,8 % 0,5 70 73 3,0
Change in poverty rates in LA, 2011 vs. 2010
PercentageNumber
Fuente: ECLAC, 2011.
Poverty Extreme povertyPoverty Extreme poverty
II: A Policy agenda for FSN
Governance mechanisms on FSN
Increase investments on a more sustainable agriculture
Transform food production and consumption patterns
Governance mechanisms on global and regional levels
Globally: CFS; G-20:UUNN Regionally: CELAC; UNASUR; MERCOSUR; CAN;
SICA; CARICOM; ALBA; SELA; ALADI
LAC Hunger Free Initiative 2025 Intra-regional food trade Animal, forest & fish health, and food safety
Investment and Sustainability
Greater public and private productive investment in family farming
Adapting agriculture to climate change
Fostering local food markets
Improving property rights over land and water
Food access and consumption patterns
Social protection systems
Labor markets
Consumption of traditional food
School meals and education on food safety