Food Security in the Era of the SDGs - So close to the deadline, so far from the targets?

This book addresses the challenges to achieve food security, which can arguably be one of the axis of any transformational solution to the structural production and reproduction of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. According to the picture depicted in the book, access to sufficient and safe food is not guaranteed for approximately 2.4 billion people, with women and children in rural areas being the most significantly affected. Particularly, the situation concerning children has set off all the alarms. Based on the data offered in the different chapters, the authors estimate that would be very difficult -if not impossible- to achieve the most important global objectives that the international community has committed to achieving by 2030: ending poverty, hunger, and food insecurity. This way, the most ambitious and well-intended development initiative the international community was able to put together in the history of humankind (the Agenda 2030) is derailing. Urgent expansion in the supply of the nutritious foods that constitute a healthy diet and a shift in consumption patterns are required -among other things- to effectively address SDGs targets. The book presents and discusses contributions of authors who have been thinking and facing those challenges in the academia and decision-making spheres. It is also a relevant contribution to rethinking the public policies of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, as well as the technical cooperation and financial assistance schemes for the region. The rethinking exercise sketched here places LAC both as a critical scenario and as a laboratory for envisioning innovative solutions that have the potential to not only transform the regional reality but also to be replicated in other regions with the proper adaptation to different contexts.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Food security and sustainable. social transformation: the challenges to reach the targets of the Agenda 2030.- Part I: Human rights and social justice perspectives to reach SDG.- 2. Laura E. Pérez Gómez (UNAM) and Ivette M. Pérez Molina. (UNAM) The Right to Food in Latin America, evaluation of policies using human rights indicators and the challenges for SDG #2 achievement.- 3. Olga C. Restrepo Yepes, César A. Molina Saldarriaga, Liliana D. Pabón-Giraldo, Andrés F. Zuluaga-Jaramillo and Jorge I. Marín Tapiero (Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación en América Latina yel Caribe). Validity, compliance and evaluation of the SDG 2. The density of the Right to Food of the Venezuelan migrant population in Colombia.- PART II: Measurements, policies and strategies to achieve food security: what work, what doesn't and why.- 4. Hugo Melgar-Quiñones (McGill University) The multiple faces of food insecurity and hunger.- 5. Carla Arévalo and Jorge Paz (CONICET -Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina) So close to the deadline, so far from the goal: Anatomy of Food Poverty in 10 Latin American Countries.- 6. Martín Maldonado (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) and Hawley C. Almstedt (Loyola Marymount University) From Hunger to Food Security. Ethical, political, and practical implications of SDGs
measurements.- 7. Ianina Tuñon, (UCA - Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina) Children's hunger: the challenges of its eradication in Latin Amerérica.-Part III: the challenge to achieve food security on time. Issues and accountability.- 8. Manuel OTERO (Director General of IICA) Federico Villarreal, Eugenio Díaz[1]Bonilla, Hugo Chavarría, Eduardo Trigo and Jorge Werthein. Facing the Challenge of Food Security on Time: Latin American and Global Perspectives.- 9. Rosana Polastri (IFAD, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean), Ricardo Fort, Alvaro Espinoza and Fiorella Loli. The hidden middle: Distribution bottlenecks and food insecurity in Latin America.- 10.  Lola Castro (WFP, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean), Raphael Leao and Carlos Mejía. Contributions of inclusive and resilient local food production systems to food security and nutrition in LAC.- 11.  Nancy Aburto , Deputy Director of the Food and Nutrition Division, FAO. Integrated action for climate and nutrition : reaching national goals through one solution to two of our biggest barriers to sustainable development.- 12.  Mario Lubetkin (Director FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean) Strategies and feasible policies to overcome the challenges to achieve food security in Latin America in relation with the global context.- Conclusion 13. Alberto Cimadamore (CONICET-UBA) and Carlos Cherniak (Permanent Representative of Argentina to FAO, IFAD and WFP) Food Security and the SDG2: What should be done from science, politics and international cooperation to reach the commitments?.

About the author

Alberto D. Cimadamore is career Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET) based at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economy (IIEP) of the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET.
Carlos B. Cherniak is a career Ambassador in the Foreign Service of Argentina, currently on leave. He was the former Permanent Representative of Argentina to FAO, IFAD and WFP and member of their governance structures until 2024.

Summary

This book addresses the challenges to achieve food security, which can arguably be one of the axis of any transformational solution to the structural production and reproduction of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. According to the picture depicted in the book, access to sufficient and safe food is not guaranteed for approximately 2.4 billion people, with women and children in rural areas being the most significantly affected. Particularly, the situation concerning children has set off all the alarms. Based on the data offered in the different chapters, the authors estimate that would be very difficult -if not impossible- to achieve the most important global objectives that the international community has committed to achieving by 2030: ending poverty, hunger, and food insecurity. This way, the most ambitious and well-intended development initiative the international community was able to put together in the history of humankind (the Agenda 2030) is derailing. Urgent expansion in the supply of the nutritious foods that constitute a healthy diet and a shift in consumption patterns are required -among other things- to effectively address SDGs targets. The book presents and discusses contributions of authors who have been thinking and facing those challenges in the academia and decision-making spheres. It is also a relevant contribution to rethinking the public policies of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, as well as the technical cooperation and financial assistance schemes for the region. The rethinking exercise sketched here places LAC both as a critical scenario and as a laboratory for envisioning innovative solutions that have the potential to not only transform the regional reality but also to be replicated in other regions with the proper adaptation to different contexts.

Product details

• Assisted by: B Cherniak (Editor), Carlos B. Cherniak (Editor), Alberto Cimadamore (Editor), Alberto D. Cimadamore (Editor), Alberto D Cimadamore (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2025
• EAN: 9783031838408
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3183840-8
• No. of pages: 315
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 22 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Illustrations: XXVII, 315 p. 33 illus.
• Series: Global Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Politik und Staat, Climate Change, Political Science, MALNUTRITION, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals, Poverty, Political Ethics, food security, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Politics and International Studies, Politics and Human Rights, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, environmental degradation, structural inequality