Public policies and food systems in Latin America

Foreword

Introduction

Part I. Regional food policy analysis

1. Food policies and the politicization of food: the Latin American experience

2. Futures studies and the food question in Latin America: a literature review

3. International organizations and the evolution of food security public policy référentiel in Latin America and the Caribbean

Part II. A historical overview of national food policies

4. Social history and institutional change in Nicaragua’s agricultural

and food policies

5. Food security and sovereignty in Paraguay: who are public policies aimed at?

6. Historical evolution of institutions and public policies for sustainable food security in Mexico: continuities and ruptures

7. Public policies and agriculture: historical analysis of their effects on the structure of the Bolivian food system

8. Public policies and the food system in Chile

Part III. Recent changes in national food policies

9. Food policies in Argentina: the challenges of implementing an agenda for sustainable systems with a social inclusion component

10. Changes in food programs and consumption patterns in Peru between 2004 and 2018

11. Changes in food programs and consumption patterns in Peru

between 2004 and 2018

Part IV. Building food policies and actions in regions and cities

12. The process of politicizing food sustainability in the city of Brasilia: towards a transition of the local food system?

13. Building an urban food policy: the case of Cali, Colombia

14. The sustainable transformation of food systems and their impact on food and nutritional security: the case of the municipality of San Ramón, Nicaragua

15. Development of and changes in public food and nutrition security policy in the department of Antioquia, Colombia

Part V. The challenges of specific food policies

16. The politicization of public food procurement in Brazilian state governments: actors and ideas in the creation of sustainable food systems

17. Family farming food and its relationship with the state: the crystallization of differentiated norms within Argentina’s public policy agenda

18. Public procurement from Uruguayan family producers and fishers and cross-cutting rural development policies

19. Soy on one side, livestock on the other: the food issue with regard to indigenous people and public policies in Paraguay

List of Spanish or Portuguese acronyms

About the authors