Food Security and Sovereignty: Comparative Analysis of Seven Laws in Latin America

Elisa Noemi Cofre Cachago, Jose Luis Yague Blanco and Marco Vinicio Moncayo Mino

Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, 2015, issue 242

Abstract: This is a comparative study of food security and/or sovereignty laws in seven countries of Latin America, which aim is to determine how the right to food is embodied in these legal instruments. An ex-post evaluation was used, based on five related enforcement criteria, which are: focus, institutional, social participation, evaluation, and financing. It was found that five of seven countries tend to focus on food sovereignty, even excluding this concept in its title. Moreover, a group of countries propose an Institutional instances derived based on the executive; and another group of countries opt for deconcentrate functions. Only three countries consider the inclusion of a social organization in the political agenda; and striking low or no private-enterprise participation of all the laws. Three countries make a concrete proposal to evaluate the state regarding the right to food; and all the countries addressed the financing superficially.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.249658

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